POEM_: What is Perfect?

What is Perfect?

What is ‘perfect’?

Often,

it is expected to be

that, which is the model

of an ideal.

But ideal

is not natural.

For if it were,

it would be real.

We have been foolish

in assuming

that products of human intellect

can surpass

Reality.

Human intellect,

however brilliant,

is merely an appropriate tool

for living

a limited life

on a limited planet

in a limited time window.

Thus,

an ideal,

any ideal,

is merely

a masturbatory intellectual response

to the frustrations

suffered by a scintillating

human life.

No more.

Yes,

some ideals work.

To an extent.

And only,

to an extent.

What is important

is to use that ideal

to correct the direction

of a life

of a society

of a civilization.

Any effort

to grant a greater status

to a cherished ideal

merely defeats its spirit

by making it

a dogma.

For models of ideals,

do not exist

except as dogmas.

And ‘perfect’ does not exist

except as a loss

in a fearful and defeated

human mind.

-

owais

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