better a work in progress
than an unfixable mess?

or better a temporary mess
than an unending work in progress?

works in progress
live all the lives
without
getting stuck up
on one of them...

a mess is a mess
only because it was
once lucky enough
to be a completed work...

works in progress
find comfort
in being in progress...

unfixable messes
find comfort
in past laurels...

works in progress
have no fixed state
and are forever waiting
for patterns in the chaos...

messes once did
have a fixed state
and are forever waiting
to be whole again...

both,
dependent on fate...

both,
victims of fate...

both,
fixated on
the other side...

-Abdullah Alam