All the 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)
Nobody knows the way.
Nobody knows the way.