Life's Legos

When we are born we have a purpose

But left blind until we succeed.

From the first word to

Our attempt at sports

We’re just supposed to get the ball in

One of the goals, right?

We dress ourselves (for the most part)

Go to school to share and sing the ABC’s.

We try to fit the square block in the round hole

Time and time again.

We make a bigger mess feeding our siblings

Than they would

If they tried to feed themselves.

We purposely fail at some things to give ourselves

A chance at others.

Promises are made to young souls

But we’ll break them.

We stumble and sometimes

We fall

Breaking our just as fragile bones.

But mistakes, you see,

Are life’s Legos.

There are better investments we could make

Yet the temptation and surrender have become

Inevitable.

Underfoot they are our greatest foe

But the pain is only

Temporary.

They are the building blocks of our past

Our present

And our future.

But someone buys us these Legos

Someone makes those mistakes first.

They teach us how not to place the flat pieces

On the six peg blocks

But sometimes it takes the pain of trying to

Peel one off before we realize…

They were right.

Most of the time we call these people

Mom and Dad,

Mother and Father,

Mama and Papa.

But I have always called them Mommy and Daddy.

They had to build their lives with

Duplos and primary shades.

But they fought to buy me all the Legos

And I sat for hours at a time

Connecting the pieces to create a small

Bipedal, claw-fingered, simple smiled community.

And for that I am

Thankful

Because without my uncoordinated color scheme

Stacked in varying bricks beneath me,

I would be lost in the bland pegs of a

Grass green,

Square one

Baseboard.

Mistakes are life’s Legos and

I can build anything.

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