Making do

This is not a very good picture.
But it will have to do.
I wanted to take the perfect shot.
So I waited and waited.
For the lighting to be right.
For the timing to be right.
For the camera to be right.
For the film to be right.
Waited for all the factors to coincide.
(Waited and waited.)
Now the sculpture is gone.
And I don’t have the perfect picture.
But this will have to do.
(This, by the way, is not a morality tale.
It is simply my excuse.)