Perfect in Defect
To fly strong with broken wings,
To wax eloquent with but a pinch of words,
To race into hearts and history with one leg less—
These make the truest tales of perfection,
The highest perfection under Heaven:
To strip defect of effect.
Be not tarried by the sight, sound, or feel of a flaw:
No! Truest perfection never lay in the absence of
defects
But in their impotence when we will them down
from hurdle to puddle
As we hop and drop till goal we reach.
Copyright © Agona Apell | Year Posted 2024
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