Roads of Lost Mistakes
The surgeon cut on
the wrong side once,
in 1994.
He does not talk about it much.
His
hands have not been wrong since.
The pilot trusted
the gauge one night and
the gauge was telling lies.
She reads the sky before the panel now.
She
has never had to twice.
An expert is someone who made all the mistakes,
all the mistakes there are to make.
Different mistakes, different people,
same long road. Nobody knows the way
until they have gotten lost.
The baker burned a
thousand loaves before the bread came out like this.
The banker lost his
own house first.
The judge was once the kid in court.
The mother dropped the first one,
only once, onto the bed.
The teacher failed the class she loved.
The captain ran aground and learned the chart.
An expert is someone who made all the mistakes,
all the mistakes there are to make.
Different mistakes, different people,
same long road. Nobody knows
the way until they have gotten lost.
So when you meet someone
who has never been wrong,
be kind.
They are still
at the beginning.
An expert is someone who made all the mistakes.
(all the mistakes) Every
one. Every one.
Nobody knows the way until they have gotten lost.