Building Your Masterpiece
Opening a box,
Taking out the bags and instruction book,
There’s a certain excitement,
As you look at the picture of what it will be.
Opening and possibly retrieving a bag or two,
It begins,
You look at the picture,
To figure out which pieces are needed.
You carefully take the pieces out,
And with great concentration,
Stick them together,
Making sure they’re nice and tight.
You look at the picture,
Like a scanner looking for defects,
Making sure you placed the right pieces,
And have not missed one.
You have to be careful,
Not to miss a step or piece,
It takes concentration and time,
To make sure you’re going the right way.
This is like any project of life,
You have to carefully analyze and piece together,
The pieces to make sure everything’s right,
And that no steps are missed.
When it is done,
You lean back and sigh,
At the creation on your desk or table or whatever it may be,
Almost shining with a nonexistent light.
There may be wonders you haven’t noticed,
Or haven’t even planned,
But if you did,
They seem all the more amazing.
Painfully and carefully put together piece by piece,
The time wasted seems worth it,
And it’s more amazing than the picture,
Because it’s done by your hand.
Made of blocks, wood, or plastic, or maybe of all,
It is yours and it’s amazing,
If to no one else than at least to you,
Because it is your
masterpiece!