The Perfect Poem

[Lightning Rod]

suppose I wrote the perfect poem
spilled like semen from my pen
so perfect that it means everything
fills all purposes and is complete

what if just by reading this poem
your world would be transformed
the peaches would all be ripe
the living celebrated, the fallen mourned

exultation, lament, elegy, sonnet
mad, erotic, wild but strangely soothing
couplets that take you around the world
slap you then hold a mirror to your beauty

It makes all the women wet, the men courageous
The academics discuss it at length
The young find inspiration there
The old find comfort and strength

It is much memorized and quoted, this poem
included in speeches, made into songs
it settles all disagreements, soothes all wounds
makes grown men cry, the damsel swoons

If I sat down right now and wrote this poem
in one rude act of creation
would I be rich and eternal
would you love me then?

[hester_prynne]

Yeah!
I would!
Gawd LRod, sometimes you so nail it.....
I love this
H

[Lightning Rod]

hest, you know you rock my world

the poem might not be quite perfect, but I'm trying (so I'm told by my friends)

it's sort of like my singing