Perfection; great illusion.
Tell me is that where your demons dwell?
Are they in the garden, or the bottle,
Or some supreme personal hell?
Is flawlessness a virtue,
Or a distraction for the mind?
Is the appeal of the ideal
Truly a goal that’s so sublime?
Could a diamond be a paragon
Of what a body’s meant to be?
A texture unattainable,
Lacking relevance, ridiculously.
Do you seek the pure?
And can such a thing truly be real?
Beware the call of perfection,
For, in truth, there is no ideal.
Lately I’ve been doing a weekly thing with a friend where we pick a word out of this book she has, and we both write a poem. I wasn’t planning on sharing them on here, as they’re more exercises than poems. But then I thought, meh why not?
So this is one of those.