[at-l] Poem - overcoming obstacles

[bogey1%40worldlynx%2Enet (Robinson, Nancy)]

 Some people overcome obstacles while others want someone else to overcome
obstacles for them.  Which one will make you stronger and better for the
effort?  
We can all grow where we are planted and make the world a better place. 

     	THE OYSTER
There once was an oyster whose story I tell,
Who found that some sand got under his shell,
Just one little grain but it gave him a pain,
Oysters have feeling for all they're so plain.
Did he berate the workings of fate
That led him to such a deplorable state? 
Did he curse the government or cry for an election?
And cry that the seas should give him protection?
"No",  he said to himself, as he lay on the shelf,
"Since I cannot remove it I'll try to improve it".
The years rolled around as the years always do
And he came to his ultimate destiny, Stew!
And the small grain of sand that had bothered him so
Had a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.
The tale has a moral or isn't it grand
What an oyster can do with a small grain of sand?
What couldn't we do if only we'd begin
With all of the things thst get under our skin.
SLIM

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