Be The Best You Can Be

My 2011 Year End Poem For YOU My Friend!
Be The Best You Can Be
Please you be the very, best you can be,
Anything less? Gross disservice to thee!
All insects, animals, even each tree,
Are trying to be, the best they can be.
Seems to me strange, given smarter are we,
Not to try to be, the best we can be.
And this poem’s not written, just for thee,
I am also writing, pointing at me.
It must be something else, other than me,
Blunts my urge to be, as good as can be.
I should find out who, who really is me,
So I can say, “I’m the best I can be.”
So whenever the urge, comes over me,
To be any less, than the best that’s me,
I can ask myself, “Who am I? Who’s me?”
“Who is it who is, the best I can be?”
Ask yourself that often, and you will be,
The top best of all, the best you can be.
by Tom Grimshaw