the smedley log - suburban scrawl

veneer

do your very best,
but there will always be flaws
you cannot obscure.

the alternate version (different closing line):

do your very best,
but there will always be flaws
for which you’ll be judged.

Even at my worst
My flaws are my flaws, thank you
All mine to embrace

you make a good point;
this haiku was all about
acceptance, not dread.

so true …

doing my very worst
there will always be perfections
I cannot obscure.

what you see as ‘flaw’
another might see as an
expression of grace

A flaw, a virtue
or neither – depends on when
we chose to reveal

*******
judge me, admire
me; adore me, despise me;
but I need to love me.