David Walker Poet Rhyme

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A Certain Kind of Perfection

A Certain Kind of Perfection
David J Walker

Unexpectedly 
	A certain kind of perfection
Lights the room
	The kind of light that makes us
Lesser’s look like moths 

	Crashing into its fatal
burning surface
Unable 
	To fly away  
Unable and Unstable 
	In thought and what to say
So you say the wrong thing anyway
And fly into the light

A certain kind of perfection
Appears only once in life
	And goes away
Disappearing like a magnificent trick 
Played out in Time Square
	For everyone to see

Like New Year’s Eve
And everyone has come to
	Watch the ball fall far
Away into a new year
And you are not there 
	To catch it

A certain kind of perfection
	Is a fable
For those unable to live it
For those unable to be it 
Unable to see it

Appearing once 
Then fade away 
Leaving you in awe of 
A light that slipped though
Your fingers on 
A day that will pass into the night

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