Flawed

If I looked at my own reflection

Wading pools or medicine cabinets

Would I smile or would I look away?

Tested each and every day

My Flaws are plentiful

My acceptance and accountability very high

To know I'm not hiding behind my weakest features

It's ok to say I'm imperfect

The results don't lie 

Even if others can't see 

I know, I will always know

The path of least resistance

Is the road I have never chosen

I'm the first to point out your flaws

I'm even quicker to point out my own

Too many times we try to suppress the truth

But the camera is always rolling

I can ask for forgiveness and know it will be given

The powers of prayer and belief are unrelenting

As are the mistake ridden lives that we continually live

I am flawed and that's ok for now

I don't want you to be like me

I don't care if you think like I do

Don't believe in the same things that I do

Vote for the same things that I would If I did vote

Just be you and I will fight with myself

Change the things that I know I can

And continue to realize that I'm a work in progress

Not pointing fingers at the rest

I can only pass my own test

I write my book and tear my own pages

Build my walls in many stages

This show is not appropriate for all ages

For my filters are not always turned on

Faults and all I see some goodness

I stay up up nights and feel I've dismissed

The gifts of life and the things I've been blessed

I'm loved and admired when I fail the tests