--- title: Be The Best date: 2007-01-26T06:22:24Z modified: 2007-01-26T06:22:24Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/be-the-best/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 91 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2007-01-26T06:22:24Z tags: - Life Poems --- If you can’t be the pine at the top of the hill Be the scrub in the valley, but be The best little scrub on the side of the hill Be a bush if you can’t be a tree If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass Doing something for somebody’s sake If you can’t be a muskie try being a bass But be the liveliest bass in the lake We can’t all be captains, some have to be crew There is something for all of us here There is big work and little for people to do And the task we must do is near So if you can’t be a [highway](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/waiting-on-the-highway.md) then be a great trail If you can’t be a sun be a star It isn’t by size that you win or you fail Be the best at whatever you are By Douglas Malloch