Learning to live with rejection is a skill <br />that's hard to acquire and learning to love <br />imperfection is harder still for the trier. <br /> <br />The memos in the margin, the solo's one bum note, <br />the weeds in every garden, the frog in the <br />singer's throat. <br /> <br />The fluffed lines in the drama, the dancer out <br />of time, the guru with no karma, the poet with <br />no rhymes. <br /> <br />To me such things are treasures, yet all of them <br />are free, the proof of life's true pleasure, <br />our frail humanity. <br /> <br />The trouble with perfectionists is they never <br />anything done, they would quibble over guest lists <br />for the explosion of the sun.<br /><br />Neil Crawford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-rejection-of-perfection/
