“Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.”
More from Shel Silverstein
“….and she loved a little boy very, very much– even more than she loved herself.”
“Poor, poor fool why can’t you see She can love others and still love thee.”
“I can be someone’s and still be my own.”
“And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.”