Saturday, March 22, 2008

Be The Best That You Could Be by Jeques

Be The Best That You Could Be

tree

If you are a tree, be the best tree that you could be.

Let the hands of time mold your body

Endure the seasons ~ be sturdy.

shrub

If you’re not a tree

But a shrub only,

Be the best shrub that flourish

Your sight people will cherish.

herb

If you’re not a shrub

But a herb only,

Be the best herb that heals

So people may live.

weeds

If you’re not a herb

But a weed only,

Be the best grass that’s green.

To console the people in pain.

The Best~

And If fate will not make you any,

Then be just the soil maybe.

A fertile soil where seeds

Of herbs and weeds

And shrubs and trees grow.

Somehow, in them you may live;

You will bring them life ~

Becoming the best that you could be.

~

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here live a great street sweeper who did his job so well. ~Martin Luther King


And when I die strew my dust-remains in the earth so trees may grow.


1 comment:

Jeques said...

Milou,

Thanks for posting my contribution.

I just would like to correct some error I've noticed. The first stanza of the poem is missing:


"If you are a tree, be the best tree that you could be.

Let the hands of time mold your body

Endure the seasons ~ be sturdy."

And also there's an error in the name of Martin Luther King in the quoatation part.

I hope you could make the adjustment.

Thanks again.

I wish you well.

~ Jeques