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Jigsaw Puzzle
The missing piece in this picture!
Life's jigsaw puzzle is complete!
So slowly it was assembed
From small parts seemingly discrete.
And yet it never was quite done.
I had the corners, had the frame.
Gradually that was built up
Though many pieces looked the same.
The picture formed and was quite nice-
Some small spots held one's attention
But most of it was bland background,
Hardly special enough to mention.
The missing piece! That missing piece!
The whole was weakened by that hole.
The more I tried to dismiss it
The more finding it was my goal.
Yes, that puzzle was a puzzle
I tried to put it from my mind.
Yet my days were flavoured by it
And my dreams were a quest in kind.
I discarded many pieces
As I remained unsure of fit.
Surreptitiously I still sought
The missing magic; couldn't quit.
Days turned to years; the puzzle stayed
Incomplete, seemingly ignored.
I tried to push it out of thought-
A failure then, to be abhorred.
And then...and then...why...there it was
And it had been there for a while!
How slow I'd been to realize
Its perfect fact- its winning style!
I think it is a hologram.
I see its essence -not all bits.
I cannot grasp it in my hands,
But my heart holds it, and it fits
And now life's puzzle is complete.
It glows with burnished beauty-bright.
The gaping hole is filled at last
And all is savoured with delight.
