PERFECTION


by Larry Goldberg


Perfection is not what we are.
It is what we've tasted and know inside.
It is what we long for, live for, die for
See in our friends and share
As best we can
Without denying what we are.
Perfection is a gift
Given and received by fools
Who fear and falter
But never forget
What they once were
What they are sure
To find.

Perfection is the child of hope
The mother of all design.
It lives and breathes in quantum land
In eternities of sand.
Perfection sings when we're in tears
Forgives our growing years
Appears and disappears.
It flickers, but all the same
It glows from ear to ear.

Perfection is a better world.
Not perfect, by any means
It is a tangle of evolving things.