Change you can your hair color, not your skin; <br />Change you can your smile and grin: not your eyes; <br />Change you can your sex partners, not your kin; <br />Change you can your sinful life: Be soul-wise! <br /> <br />Change you can your friends and foes, not parents; <br />Change you can your teacher/guide, not your brain; <br />Change you can your exam-marks, not talents; <br />Change you can your habits bad and be sane. <br /> <br />Change you can the environment, not the sun; <br />Change you can the landscape old, not the soil; <br />Change you can your temperament and not run; <br />Change you can your heart and mind: you must toil. <br /> <br />Change you can your ambitions but be brave; <br />Change you can your life-styles much but behave! <br /> <br /> 6-3-2001<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-change-you-can-but/
