the loathsome

Loathsome and wise, 
fearsome and fierce, 
fulsome and fond:
I am three of these things. 
I can never be more 
than three things at once. 
Or maybe I could,
but who the hell wants 
to juggle five things 
or even, four? When 
being wants only 
what's been before.
What's mastered 
habitually to puissance. 
So: generally three 
is the most, at once.