The final piece

You open up the box

 

 

Turning the box around, you scatter the pieces

 

 

One by one, you sense the pieces around and try to find the place for them in your mind

 

 

It takes some time and patience to figure out what to do

 

 

The picture that was fuzzy and chaotic in front of you starts making more and more sense

 

 

Until it becomes clear the pieces that are needed

 

 

 

But when the end is in sight, there is a piece that you cannot seem to find for in your puzzle

 

 

There are many at your disposal, but none seem to fit the place you want to put it in

 

 

Some stick a bit out, others seem too short and others are just too big

 

 

 

The problem here is that you cannot change their shape

 

 

You cannot cut, increase or even colour them differently

 

 

 

What to do, you may ask, to one who has made plenty of puzzles

 

 

 

If you stick a piece too big, it will ruin it, so those are to be discarded

 

 

If the colour is not completely right, you find the one that is most similar to the place you want to fill

 

 

And you find the piece that is most similar in shape that can fit there

 

 

 

You may argue that it is cheating, as you wanted for it to look perfect

 

 

But puzzles aren’t made with replacement parts in mind

 

 

They have no number on their back that allows you to say that it is that one that is missing to order one

 

 

Even if it did, new ones are coming out everyday

 

 

Why would the puzzle company keep spares for all of them

 

 

It is much easier for you just to get a new one to make

 

 

 

You can’t make a piece to size

 

 

It is not your job to do so

 

 

They come as they are

 

 

 

You may just choose to quit making the puzzle, but so much effort has already been placed assembling it

 

 

If you really like it, why leave it there, hoping for that piece to appear

 

 

You have to work with what you have

 

 

 

Perhaps that smaller piece can work well in that space

 

 

Perhaps the dust of time will have the ability to help it settle in that space, firm and strong

 

 

Showing to all that that irregular piece has a place of its own on your puzzle

 

 

 

 

Original and out of place as you are

 

 

The correct piece for your incorrect desire

 

 

The best piece that your mind may find

 

 

The last one you will ever need