Perfection

Talent and skill
Will and grit
What you do
That itself speaks

Set standards
Higher than you did
And when you meet them
See how shallow you think

Refine and improve
Nothing limits you
But your thoughts
And those who taunt

You are your friend
And enemy too
Why you give in
Halfway through

Try but a little more
Care not if something holds
Loosen the grip
And run as if for gold

Perfection is nothing
But a state of mind
Unless you struggle
Nothing you find

Work for perfection
And give full attention
To the structure for strength
And to the details for depth

Perfect is no one and none can be
But one who gives life to his works
May one day find it unawares
That he is not far from it

Man wants to be God
Let him be
He wants to be perfect
Let him be

Man is man indeed
Who settles for no less
He competes with God
And becomes a perfect earthly being!