Poem of Encouragement - Be The Best Of Whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valley, but be ...
The best little scrub by the side of the hill,
Be a bush if you can't be a tree

If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass -
But be the liveliest bass in the lake

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star
It isn't by size that you win or you fail ...
Be the best of whatever you are

by D. Malloch