The Ring

Notice how in the poem, the sentences with the word 'Perfect' are never completed in one line but always runs on to the next. And ironically the lines with the word 'Imperfect' see the sentences that hold that word completed in a single line. The persona is also compared to or with time. Time is forever in motion and it will forever be there; further signifies how the experience of wearing this object will always be there in the consciousness of Time and thus the persona. Also notice how the object, in this case the ring, from just a novel object and thing, loses its novelty to become something that is one with the persona. Even when it is no longer worn for whatever reason, it still will always be 'there', still serving it's purpose, whatever it may be.


The Ring

It was round. Not so
Perfect, it was.
Neither was it too imperfect.
It was just right; like everything
That was novel,
Newborn, interesting.

Over time, Time wore
It, and wore it, till it became
No longer the round, not so
Perfect, yet not
Too imperfect;
Novel object.

It became a dis-
Torted, un-
Rounded shape that was part
Of time and the hand it
Wrapped around and scratched
From wear.

Though it no longer
Wraps and scratches,
It has melded into skin and
Will forever be a mark
Left there for-
Ever.