Learn to...be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. (Henri Frederic Amiel)
IMPERFECTION
The innocent youth that was my foundation
Had not the strength to keep me pure
It comes to prove with each child's creation
Circumstances makes that innocence more and more obscure
I was not to grow into a perfect being
I rejected some things that we're vital in some respect
As I looked ahead I was clearly not seeing
What I should have embraced, what I failed to reject
It took too many years to accept the flaws
That marred my person but grew my character
Nature itself has its blame in the cause
That leads to perfection's barrier
It is in maturity I now understand
That to shed the flaws that do me harm
I must display the good to countermand
What the serpent impressed on me with his charm
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