Far From Perfect

By Lindsay Renee Neumann

I am not perfect

Far from it in fact

Though others don’t always

See it that way

I am not perfect.

I stumble and fall

I am hurt

I am lost

I’m afraid

I am not perfect

No matter how hard I try

I mess up all the time

I am ugly inside

I am not perfect

Most definitely not

For it was I who turned my back on Him

I nailed those nails

Pound after pound

I am the reason He bled

All the sins of the world were on

His shoulders that day

As He paid the fatal price

For I am not perfect

It is the Perfect One who died

©1998 Lindsay Renee Neumann