(If it’s not perfect 

It soon will be)

Can we be thankful for everything 

Things we have 

Things we don’t

The way things are

The ways they are not

The way things change constantly 

(If it’s not perfect 

It soon will be)

Maybe even I can make a small step toward peace

And at least be thankful for what I have

And what I am now

Instead of seeing aspects of my life as problematic bits and pieces 

Let me see it in all its integrity

Let me be happy with it

For doesn’t every opposition carry a seed

Of agreement 

And in the great evolving dynamics….

A mystic beauty 

*IF* it’s not perfect

(And….

It truly may be

*If* I can learn to see it that way)

What if at the very least

I could learn to believe 

That:

IF it’s not perfect

It soon will be

-jenn