This is one of the 1st poems i've ever written... Now that I think about it, it's actually the 2nd poem I've ever written... That was 3 years ago (time flies)... It's one of my favorites (among others) and it was very personal at the time. I got tired of being called "perfect" yet nobody was "ready" for me. So this was the end result... Enjoy!
The Imperfections of a Perfection
I am a living and walking
Breathing and talking
Human oxymoron
If that’s some food for thought
That your mind can’t seem to chew on
Let me put it in other words for you:
I’m the perfect man!
I’m the type of dude to willingly hold my girlfriend’s hand
Stand side by side with her at all times
But at the same time give her space
Never really all up in her face
I mean I want her all to myself
But I’m man enough to let her hang with someone else
Stingy, yet never too clingy
Cooking cleaning & laundry
I’ll do whatever my lady wants
Even lay the pipe down from the back or the front
I’m never really this blunt, I’m actually steady on the humble
However I will say I have made some ladies stumble when they walked
And some fumble their words when they talked
Yes indeed I’m the perfect man for any woman you see
And that is why I’m single
I mean I’ll make my woman’s spine tingle
With the sounds of my fingers fiddling up & down the scales of a piano
Serenading her soul, I’m bold enough to wrap my arms around her in public if she’s cold
Not that I need a reason to do that anyway
I’m the fella that’ll please my lady any day
In any way shape or form
I’m so far-fetched from the norm
But that is why I’m single
No 20 something year old female is ready to mingle with “The One”
No 20 something year old female wants to be with someone
Whose son they could potentially want to conceive
Suffocation, it’s hard for them to breathe
No 20 something year old female is ready to receive all the things I am
See, when you’re the perfection of a man
It’s the imperfections of others that you can’t stand
Like the bunch of boys who aren’t able to call themselves “a man”
Ladies call them lames
Giving us gentlemen terrible names
However, you females too make us perfections feel pain
Like the ones who got it stuck in their brain that all men are the same
Or the ones who like to play games with men’s hearts
Then slam them down like a dunk by LeBron James
These tele-visions of material worship are also to blame
It’s time for these deceitful, lying lions to be tamed
Or maybe just maybe
I’m not as perfect as I’m perceived to be
Maybe there are things wrong with me that I don’t see
It’s hard for a perfect man like me to admit that he needs self-direction
That’s probably the worst thing about being a perfection
Correction: That’s probably the key imperfection of being a perfection
one of my favs!
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