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Where is Perfection Found?

Nora Jorgensen

Perfection attempts to be found

In all that is shined.

Between the glazing strength of melody

To the harmonious agreement of unity.

 

It is found when looking

To find error or uncertainty,

But leave, hearing none.

What if it were not where it is displayed,

Rather where it hides?

 

To see the perfection set forth between

The showcased talents to see

What silently resides.

 

The line, which was ran

ten thousand and one times,

Though not difficult in individual,

never ran cohesively until that final time.

It is not flashy, or obvious.

Only “triumph”

From understanding the struggle.

 

The harmonies which are not difficult to hear

But difficult to find until you have accomplished it.

The respect of an event

To follow every dreary order and song.

They way which instructed,

Rather than how the student calls.

 

This is where perfection is found.

Within the in between.

Though not obvious

Unless previously known.

Perfection non the less.

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