Everyday Motion Poem by Dah Helmer

Perfection and imperfection
storytelling favorites
the fable
of yes and no, good and bad

We spin in between
sometimes dominated by one more than the other
the gravitational pull
wants to bury us
the ego wants to move upward

In everyday motion
we attempt to implement perfection
as standard existence, the perfect body
the perfect mind
to hold life at its most everlasting

The dark light in its perfection
the bright light in its perfection
both imperfect to the other

Tonight I feel imperfect
tossing and turning near the surface
of discomfort
because perfection is a con
a phony
a shopkeeper for the misinformed


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from my fifth book-length manuscript

©dah / dahlusion 2014 / 2016 all rights reserved

'Everyday Motion' was first published in 'Dead Snakes Journal'