“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.” ~John Henry Newman
Perfecto’s Vault
There once was an artist whose name
Reflected the work that he did
“Perfecto” was his name because
Imperfection is what he forbid
He worked as an artist and sculptor
Musician and filmmaker too
A writer, a poet, a dancer
Creative he was, through and through
But the problem was that young Perfecto
Just never could get things quite right
He wanted them perfect, and so
He worked on them all day and night
But Perfecto could never get works
To ever be without some flaws
“It has to be perfect to gain
The audience’s big applause!”
And so he kept tweaking and tweaking
But never could get it perfect
“It has to be just how I want it!
This artwork of me does reflect!”
And after way too much fine-tuning
Of it he eventually got sick
And so rather than unveil and let
A few of his viewers nitpick
He took it way down to his basement
And threw it into his steel vault
Along with all his other works
That had some sort of tiny fault
He slammed shut the door of the vault
And began to think of his next piece
Never once thinking it too
Would make his vault’s contents increase
Years later, when he was much older
And tried to store one more away
The vault’s door exploded wide open
And out spilled all of its cache
There he lay buried in pieces
That used to seem like they were flawed
But where once he’d been irritated
Now the old man was just awed
The years had done something to his eyes
No longer did he see the specks
All he saw was how amazing
Were all his abandoned projects
The joy and the wonder he got
Had suddenly made him admit
Perfecto had been very selfish
To think all his work was unfit
He understood there in that moment
Not everyone sees things the same
What one person thinks is imperfect
Another might loudly exclaim:
“I love it! It’s awesome! Fantastic!
I really enjoyed all your work!
Thank you for sharing it with me
And bringing to my face a smirk!”
And so Perfecto sat and cried
‘Cause all of his passion and talent
Lay on the floor of this dark basement
Because he had not been more gallant
To not care what others would think
About the work he had created
Drowning in work he now loved
That for silly reasons he had once hated
The end
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“Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.” ~Rosalynn Carter
Imperfecto’s Vault
There was a guy named “Imperfecto”
Who got the job done and kept going
His vault was empty because
He wasn’t afraid of flaws showing
The end
