Day 25: Id Rather

"Would you rather be perfect or would you rather be complete?" Carl Jung

I would rather know affluence than poverty,
though I would live one and dream the other and therefore know both well.

I would rather know friendship than loneliness,
though I carve time alone or I find I'm alone and so have lone moments and chunks and planks.

I would rather know compassion than dispassion,
even as I sometimes find neutrality the better way to live through things.

I would rather know motherhood than barrenness,
but there's barrenness only a mother knows when her child is far away.

So I would rather be perfectly complete,
but then I would be dead.