by Dylan Darroch

Created on: July 26, 2011

Re-read the good book a dozen times

Mount the sermon and still you find

Each verse rehearsed within your mind

The words and verbs that make up lines

More or less, re-define, morality as pure as wine

Pressed and poured into skins with spigots fine

Still why am I so un-divine?

Perfection man can never boast?

Pictures framed and focused more than most

The best I’ve tried to be a host

To beauty, art, and holy ghosts

Ghostly fading, failing to impress

My self let a lone everyone else

Languages that I can speak

Symbols ancient Asian used to think

English or Mandarin orange deep

Still at night the light wont let me sleep

When will perfection perspire and from me seep?

Intentions, conventions and society

Contentious views of morality

Could it be that you are the same as me?

The line too fine to ever be

More or less than what you see

Morning mirrors moist reflections viewed

Stare compare aware of you to you

Or stop at all and simply do

Exactly what we ought to do

Or rather only what can be done;

Move with time old and young

Live our lives and stop seeing

Perfection seeking, freaking, nervous beings

For the greatest of us never once

Desired to be the greatest one

They lived and loved

Or loved and cried

Enchained in pain then naturally died

Each one of us just the same

Imperfect beings with different names

Imperfection perfectly pressed and engrained

More in some, less in few, less in me,

More in you?

So I guess what I am trying to say,

These words could be written a million ways

And I could sit a hundred days

Still the results resolved and received just the same

There is but One perfect in all

Gleaming, glowing above us all

A little bit within our soul

Mirror like, and bright when polished whole

Still perfect we can never be

For you’re a mirror just like me

Reflecting God and society

And when I look into your eyes

The face reflected is always mine

The light reflected as old as time

Sent from the sun illuminating minds.

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