Pendulum Personalities

To sit in the absolute
center of perfection-
exactly as far away
from defiency as
unquenchable overachievement-
To meditate in the
waves of emotion
and taste the salt in
your wounds
wanting
-still wanting.

To fall in to the
deepest slumber-
more alive in the stillness-
sparks firing off in the
paralysis
and kicking before the
finality of a free fall.

To live as third
dimensional animal-brats
stuck between instinct
and free-will
dangling pendulum
personalities
with no concern for
the hand that set
us in motion.

To spin in sync with
perfection-personified
and turn against it
only to complain of
the dirt in our eyes.

WE are the children
born with everything
who expect everything
who will work for nothing
who will watch our
mothers die alone
and set off in star ships
in search of
new parents to adopt.