Perfection
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April 18, 2017
Kids looking in mirrors hoping to find something
Something they know isn’t there but they look anyway
And when they don’t find what they’re looking for
They claw at it as if their bleeding fingers will fix their image
Spend all day staring at magazine pages full of photo-shopped women
Aspiring to be the next sex charged bombshell
Showing off plastic gazongas and fat pumped butts
Because they don’t know anything else.
Red screen internet TV streamin’ from wifi to mind
Taking up their time with 10 dollar a month
Sex, drugs, and forbidden thoughts
Read straight from a well organized top 10 comcast guide.
We lose our self in the clickety-clack of
Texting while we sext away our teenage lives
Turning the “greatest years of our lives” into
The “top 10 reasons I lie about my name”
Caught in a vortex of supposed satisfaction
promised by midnight promos for the newest products
Hitting shelves near you before you saw the commercial
And hitting your coffee table at a thousand mph when it’s done.
It’s all an attempt to search for something unattainable,
Unexplainable, undefinable, lost in a web of consumer culture
Rushing to produce the next consumer dream all
Bubble wrapped twice in check mark Amazon packaging.
They all want to see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and be
Perfection, not realizing that every day
They are walking in a world of masks and facades
Wrapped with a pretty little bow marked “perfect”
They take this meaningless word and slap it on every surface
Hoping the label overrides reality like
Baking a cake with shit instead of whole wheat
And thinking it’ll taste sweet and creamy
People are putting on their masks so they don’t have to show
Themselves to an audience wanting the same
Love and acceptance as you but
Just as terrified no one will see the beauty in their flaws
Stop reaching for what you can’t have
Through every available media at your disposal
And reach for all things you can have
If only you took off your mask.
The sound of the birds outside your cracked window, peace.
The taste of lips on lips helping the other breathe, love.
The rolling laughter of the waves on your toes, happiness.
Peel off the perfect and let out what’s real.
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Jazmin Barajas
Oct 8, 2017 at 6:39 pm
To Quincy Boyle,
I thought it was sadly true that people would spend time looking in the mirror looking for something that wasn’t there. I know it happens, because I could relate to it, all I see are beautiful women on all over social media and it makes me feel as if I’m not good enough. I know that they are photoshopped and some have even had plastic surgeries but it is universally embraced. It gets hard to accept yourself when all those women are what society embraces and what everyone else is trying to look like. There aren’t of commercials or magazines showing what women really look like and not everyone has to be size 2 to be beautiful. Then you say how products promise you to look perfect in a certain amount of time, it’s even more true because women are constantly buying products to look perfect but don’t know that these products won’t help. I think you should explain more on how society needs to be more realistic about what everyday people look like and we shouldn’t have to be pressured like the people in the magazines or on commercials. I couldn’t agree with you more that this a big problem in our society and we need to learn better.