The Journey of the Restless Perfectionist
Heather has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Moravian College and has been freelance writing for more than 13 years.
Perfection is a blemish on an otherwise clean vanity mirror
Just add some Windex and the white smudgy mess
Will vanish into the abyss of the Bounty paper towel
A smooth operating corporate raider by day
Someone that was raised by wolves and Bernie Madoff
Willing to sometimes walk the elderly across a busy intersection
No matter how many taxi drivers flip them off in the process
Too busy securing the next big business deal to notice
Impossible to pin down a constantly moving target anyways
With armor piercing rounds or Cupid's Arrow from 50 paces
An overachiever wearing out their high-top Keds in six months
Running from one assignment to the next non-stop
Always thinking about 55 hour work week staring at a 16.5 inch screen
Nothing else seems to matter beyond the miniscule workspace shoebox
Not even the next 24 hours come up on the imminent horizon
Personal life is an optical delusion created to make everything else
Seem worthwhile for the time being; until the paycheck comes
Found something close to an authentic brass ring slightly out of grasp
Always falling short of grabbing hold of that utopic slice of Apple Pie
Crashing to the gymnasium flood with a resounding thud
Laughed by in front of the entire Freshman class for just missing it
For every step forward, going three steps in the opposite direction
Thinking those stinking happy thoughts like rest of the Stepford drones
Works well in the cold halogen beams of broad daylight
Sadly, at nighttime that's when the wheels fall off the bus
This all-business surgeon can outmaneuver everyone but their thoughts
Hard to turn them off when internal DVD player on a continuous loop
Bright intense pictures laced with lingering self-doubt
Make it impossible to sit still; let alone sleep for a good seven hours
Difficult to be yourself; especially when unsure of what you're like
Under the influence of REM sleep and many generational bad habits
Time to deal with those bedtime quirks once and for all
No more sweeping them under the endlessly deep magic carpet
Needs to be thrown out anyways
Confronting the past and the present for a better restful future
Just what the doctor ordered
Hopefully.