Craftwise
by Elizabeth Barrette

There is a certain magic
to making something
with your own hands.

A machine might make the edges straighter,
the colors neater,
the printing a little more legible.
But it’s not about that,
and you know it.

It’s not about being perfect.
It’s about being proud of what you can do,
whatever you can do,
that you do as well as you can.

It’s about putting a bit of yourself
into what you make,
because in this world
the one thing we truly have to give
that is ours and ours alone

is time.



This poem was originally published in PanGaia magazine #45 “Magical Arts & Crafts” Nov. 2006-Jan. 2007.

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