Free Verse
Perfect Cracks
We live in a world that strives for Perfection. For an ideal form of beauty and flow. Even when we try to make things so accessible, there is a hidden truth to it all. We still judge constantly when someone doesn’t fit the bill. The employee that got all her work done in the morning, is suddenly lazy this afternoon because she’s just sitting there waiting for more work to come in. She may not be the manager but she really should strive for more if she wants to move up in the world. But the instant she burns herself out or freaks out over a little mistake. Everyone will tell her she is not a machine, she isn’t meant to be perfect all the time, and that she needs to be kinder to herself. After all the company takes pride in their mental health incentive, and we can’t have burn out can we? But the double edge sword of expectations always cuts deep.
By Lane Burns2 years ago in Poets
