Not in Vain

If I can stop one heart

from breaking

I shall not live in vain.

If I can ease one lifethe aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Declaration of Imperfection

I am not perfect.

I live on the planet Earth.

That is where humans live.

Humans are not perfect.

Never have been. Never will be.

So I don't always wear the right clothes

And I don't always use the right fork.

My memory sometimes fails me.

I don't always look like a fashion model.

I don't cook like a French chef.

I can't always do

I am human. I am inperfect.

But there is no one else like me

in the whole wide world.

I am unique. I am a miracle.