Change

Sonnet: Change You Can But…

Change you can your hair color, not your skin;

Change you can your smile and grin: not your eyes;

Change you can your sex partners, not your kin;

Change you can your sinful life: Be soul-wise!

Change you can your friends and foes, not parents;

Change you can your teacher/guide, not your brain;

Change you can your exam-marks, not talents;

Change you can your habits bad and be sane.

Change you can the environment, not the sun;

Change you can the landscape old, not the soil;

Change you can your temperament and not run;

Change you can your heart and mind: you must toil.

Change you can your ambitions but be brave;

Change you can your life-styles much but behave!

For this blog assignment, I researched a poem about change titled, " Change You Can But..." This poem reflects the many changes that happen in peoples lives all over the world. It talks about all of the changes that induviduals are able to make happen and the ones that come into peoples lives naturally. This relates to my life because over the years many changes have occured. For example, the transfer from middle school to high school influenced my life greatly. Not only did I meet many new frieds, my family also moved into a new neighborhood which was a new experience that I had to adapt to. In all, proved by this poem, change is a universal concept that happens to everyone.

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