Perfection

Perfection

Diamond rings n’ shiny pearls,

Icing laid in whirls,

Stainless steel with streakless shine,

This perfect world divine

 

Something bout the human state,

Obsessed with what we can’t create,

We push and strain but never gain

 despite our plans best lain

 

but here I sit, and here I think,

 spirits diminish, and passions shrink,

why stifle what we are?

To such as none have achieved so far

 

Perfection states,

It’s laws dictate

There is one right, all else wrong

No final might, nor sweetest song

 

One thing I know and cherish,

That even should all things perish,

My humanity is mine,

And this is truly divine,

Perfect man is not,

Though this he has forgot,

We fight our flaws, yet fail to see,

The beauty therein be

 

Why make straight, what can be curvy?

Why mandate what’s beauty truly?

Why define, what we don’t know?

Bars and boxes no beauty show.

 

Black and white is so cliché

Shades of gray in paper mache

Plain ol’ Order is dull and boring

Why are you, your own nature abhorring?

 

Try as you might, you cannot effect,

Go to your corner and find your perfect,

I’ll be here with my flaws, all can see,

Don’t you fret, I’m just doing me

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Katie Flores]

hey so it was a really good poem, I really could connect to the ideas you put out there about being yourself and not trying so hard to change yourself into something you arn't. the only thing is that the rhyming scheme was a little too predictable for me. but otherwise it was golden :)

[amanda]

thats really good you should be a poet btw is that u in the picture

[Alex Davis]

Well the poem picture is that standard tree one, however my profile picture is me.

[amanda]

oh no offense but u look way older than seventeen lol

[Alex Davis]

So ive been told :p

[amanda]

:)