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Open Poetry #20

I Am A Perfectionist

D.Lester Young
Senior Member

since 2001-12-08

Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

0 posted 2002-05-21 10:07 AM

Do I think I could gain perfection in anything? Only a fool would say that, for perfection leads to more challenges to miscue from. I can only look for it in my dreams, to only loose it in reality.

From somewhere beyond me lies perfection
But the frailties of existing keep it at an arm length
In finger tips of hope scratching for a taste
The elusive quest is just a dream away
With every wrong move I make

For in everything I have done wrong
I have turned to see light
Sometimes bending under the strain
That drives me so
To reach that hidden goal

The scratches that age my body
Live in the mistakes I have made
Leaving me vulnerable to be human
Crying for more perfection
To dent this body with such pain
That my dreams cry for more

How do I climb a hill
That has no end
And the beginning has no start
Sliding into an inferno
My bodies friction drives me forward
Into the possibilities

Yes perfection I crave it
But what is it
Can anyone tell me a human who has it
For the flaws in life will always grow
Especially in the mind of other perfectionists

So I write in my perfection
Only to find gaping holes of humanity
Willing to devour it and chew it to pieces
But yet enough survives to promise me hope
That someday something I will say
Will have only one doubter
A critic upon himself
Who you see is not very perfect at all
Just a dreamer in war torn world of hope

Email me at davelyoung1@hotmail.com
D.Lester Young (05/21/02)
Tuscaloosa, AL
Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry) http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=5012

[This message has been edited by D.Lester Young (05-21-2002 10:25 AM).]

Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

1 posted 2002-05-21 10:14 AM

I believe
this will be
understood,
and welcomed,
by many...

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