things aren’t easy
“easy to say and hard to do”
“nothing comes from nothing”
and all that
but what does it really mean
anyone who’s built a house
or a complicated computer program
from scratch
knows
and may be able to tell you
if you can listen
a good artist
and each person who dares
to create something
that never existed
or change something carefully
to make it better
knows too
it means starting with nothing
but an idea
and starting with not knowing
but believing you can figure it out
and building from that
one piece and one fact at a time
and learning how to fit each piece
each fact
with another
over and over
day after day
and make mistakes
and care enough to see them
and fix them
and learn
and not make mistakes
but stand back
and want to make it even better
and do some parts again
until you know they’re right
day by day
one piece one fact
married to another
sets of facts and pieces
put together to make
bigger pieces
and one assembly
married to another
building and building
until you’re done
and your idea works
just like you knew it would