Can you tell a mocking bird to stop, <br />Singing from the very top, <br />Of the live oak in the back? <br />Can you make that old man move, <br />Just because he has no roof, <br />On that old delapidated shack? <br /> <br />Can you tell the sun to stay, <br />Below the horizon every day, <br />As the morning comes around? <br />Can you tell the stars on high, <br />Not to sparkle from the sky, <br />As we watch them from the ground? <br /> <br />Can you tell the wind that blows, <br />Not to whistle as it goes, <br />Around the wide world every day? <br />Or tell the ocean not to roar, <br />As the tide comes close to shore, <br />Come what come, or come what may. <br /> <br />Nothing you can say or do, <br />Can change these things oh it's so true, <br />And you would'nt if you could. <br />So be the one person today, <br />To give God his praise and pray, <br />For things you've never understood. <br /> <br />6/18/10 29 palms ca.<br /><br />Juan Olivarez<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/can-you-tell-4/
