I'm perfect -
(An outer shell of things I strive to
become, things I must reflect unto a
world disapproving of creativity, ideas
and creations from minds that blossom
into beauty.)

i'm perfect -
(no, in fact, i'm not - instead, i'm articulated;
instead, i'm dressing up my emotions and thoughts
and curling them around aspects of life you'll
appreciate. you cannot understand the colors
of my soul, so i will lay them down as numbers and
act like you can read my passion, like you can calculate
my flame with ugly, metallic, tasteless existences
with how things should be.)

im perfect.
(im painting the sidewalk with the colors of the sun
and claiming beauties and metaphors we all can
claim to understand. im drawing abstracts, im
singing raps and humming numbers, im defying all
laws of reality and blurring lines of understanding
for myself. the sky is blue because i like it that way,
up is up and down is down because that's how i feel
these days. the sun is shining, the sky is raining, the moon
is throwing its light away so i am catching. i am inventing.
i am tangible. i am real. i am taking in breaths so eagerly
because i can take more. i feel.)

imperfect.
(breathing living flawing singing drawing
writing dancing working living learning
hiding acting playing feeling making forming
thinking blinking sinking sighing hurting crying
living dying striving falling hearing seeing
catching throwing losing being -)
me.