New Year Resolutions

Tell us about your new year resolutions that you never fulfilled through the years.  
1. Any Length
2. No collaborations
3. No extreme Contents
4. Old or New Writes
5. Two Poems per Poet max
6. No AI
7. No chatting in Threads

"A Nothing Called Perfection"

O wretched toil to gild the flawed design
Each stroke doth mar the face I sought to mend
A ceaseless chase where sun shall ne'er align
And striving breeds but failure in the end

Mirror mocks with cruel unyielding truth
A fractured glass where dreams art rent in twain
The bloom of hope that sprung in tender youth
Now withers 'neath the weight of endless pain

O fleeting goal, dost thou not mercy keep?  
Thy siren's call hath led my soul astray
Night's black shroud I wander lost and weep
For dawn doth scorn my labors lost today

Perfection thou art a cursed guise
A phantom frail that fades whene'er I near
In vain pursuit my heart is rent, it dies
Yet still I tread thy path though steep and sheer

To thee, I yield, thou cruel and fickle muse
For life doth pale beneath thy shadowed rule
O grave, receive my soul, this war I lose
Where striving brings about a bleeding fool

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