Thursday 1 May 2014

Imperfect Perfection


One plus one is equal to two
But for us it’s not quite true,
Imperfect perfection
That’s us.

I love you
You love me too,
But for us it doesn't end there
Life’s not that fair.
Imperfect perfection
That’s us.

Socks and Shoes
Cake and Icing
Boy and Girl
Two hearts intertwined
Beating as one
Imperfect perfection
That’s us.

"Two totally unrelated objects
Perfectly nestled inside each other
A certain kind of peace
In a chaotic world"
And yet for us, 
The story doesn't end there
Life’s not that fair.
Imperfect perfection
That’s us.

xoxo
Chido Dziva Chikwari

They say that nothing is perfect and that even the word imperfect spells out “I’m Perfect”. Today I was left wondering if there is such a thing as ‘just right’ or if we should seek to find the beauty in all the mess and hold onto that. If we should seek out the perfection midst all the imperfection and allow it like a light to shine bright in our hearts and minds because if it’s true nothing is actually perfect.  Maybe the whole truth is that it’s truly Perfect Imperfection rather than Imperfect Perfection.  I wonder….  


But yes this poem although written about the subject matter from its own angle is also imperfect perfection. It rhymes in some bits and doesn't in many. It has a story line that doesn't quite come together, with paragraphs of different lengths and repeats in all the wrong places it is the very substance of imperfection, an articulation in mangled words of my hearts impressions. 

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