Mona Lisa Smile

would you want it if it was perfect? if the prize held no surprise if the fabric stretched without wrinkles without flaws or pills or mars when you hold it up for inspection you discover interwoven golden threads while light dances on the beauty of the yards in softest hues would you want it if it was perfect? a trail without twists and turns a gravel road that stretches out five hundred miles or more not charted on any printed maps not locatable by GPS your high beams showing all that's true on a path that is not so daunting would you want it if it was perfect? a photograph in black and white airbrushed is the quality hiding what doesn't meet the eye framed upon the mantle with a Mona Lisa smile that brings up all the questions of what is and won't be known would you want it if it was perfect? if the prisoner held no fight it they surrendered their weapon raising a white flag in the night giving up all resistance giving up all conviction if you won the battle but still you lost the war