Lessons from an Oyster

by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

There once was an oyster

Whose story I tell,Who found that some sand

Had got into his shell.
It was only a grain,but it gave him great pain.

For oysters have feelings

Although they're so plain.
Now, did he berate

the harsh workings of fate

That had brought him

To such a deplorable state?
Did he curse at the government,Cry for election,

And claim that the sea should

Have given him protection?
'No,' he said to himself

As he lay on a shell,Since I cannot remove it,I shall try to improve it.
Now the years have 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

Was a beautiful pearl

All richly aglow.
Now the tale has a moral,for isn't it grand

What an oyster can doWith a morsel of sand?
What couldn't we do

If we'd only begin

With some of the things

That get under our skin.