how can a person be called "the best"?
isn't that wrong and unhealthy and toxic
no less than a cursed utopia?
isn't it just meaningless expectation
that sets us up for an everest of disappointments?
isn't it like a mirage
promising dates but feeding us sand instead?
like being trapped in a burning room or
a locked car drowning in a ferocious river
isn't it as much suffocating?
isn't "perfect" illusionary and
"best" a mere misconception?
isn't it all a hoax-
maybe more unreal
than the myth of Loch Ness herself?

Yes
flawed each one of us is
Yet
we strive to be our best,
putting in everything,
giving it our all;
we don't deny flaws
but painstakingly learn
to fill the flawed craters
and transform them into lakes of lessons;
we don't fear mistakes
especially the ones yet to be made
but sincerely try not to repeat them once made
if not once, then at least twice or thrice.
And
That is
perfectly enough
to appreciate a person
by bestowing them with "The Best"

©dabria