September 26, 2019

FLAW

I just don’t like it that I have flaws.

Yes, flaws. You know: weaknesses; 
memories of mistakes that I made; 
spaghetti stains on white shirts;

challenging me to stop criticizing

so and so - for his mistakes as well.

Bummer: worse still - at times - I think

I hang my flaws out on my clothes line

so I don’t have to see my main flaw:

the fatal one - the one that really nags me -

the one that keeps me in the human race.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019