In Pursuit Of Perfection Poem by Alice Anne Gordon

You can pray for perfection,
But you’ll never find it.
And it’s not because God’s not there.
You can search for it,
Seek it,
Hunt it down,
But with every step you take,
To close in on what you perceive to be perfection,
You shatter the one true beauty of life.
That is,
You fail to see that trying to find perfection, in self or others,
Will only lead to blindness of all that is truly good and wonderful.
It is not the finding of perfection that brings happiness;
It is the realisation,
That you can never find it.