Persian Flaw

Persian Flaw

"In ancient times, Persian rug makers were deeply religious and believed that only God could make something perfect. They would deliberately drop in a small faulty stitch, a flaw, into each Persian rug. In doing so, a “Persian Flaw” revealed the rug maker’s devotion to God."--Karel Weijand

So we will crave

the circumstance of our shame.

So we will allow

only the treacherous in. So we will do

to ourselves what was done

to us. So we will gain mastery.

So we can believe

that it was love.

So we will learn

that love is empty.

So we can become

exhausted.

So we will meet

despair.

So we will be granted

no more choices.

So there can be only

our long fall in offering.

So in the falling

we will thrash our limbs

and plead for rescue.

And in the silence that's returned,

we'll find our wholeness.

And in our wholeness, we will clasp

the broken stitch,

and in that embrace

there will be born

devotion, and in devotion,

we will know our worth,

and in our worthiness,

we will offer up compassion.

And our compassion, we will find

a god in every failing.

 --Kristen McHenry