On seeking perfection

How many messages a day do we get,

Telling us we need to be younger, prettier,

Smarter, thinner, or more productive;

That if we simply purchased this item

Or joined this group, or read this book,

We could finally become 

the more that we’ve been seeking?

When will we learn that we are enough,

and carry within us the resources we need

To become who we were born to be

And do what we were born to do.

We needn’t continue shaping ourselves 

Into someone else’s idea of perfection:

We only need to continue becoming

More perfectly, completely 

the souls we were sent here to be.