I came across this poem in early 2010(and copied it to my notebook then). I don’t know the author.
(Waste no time gossiping it doesn’t pay!)
Many people are always poking their noses in other people’s affairs for nothing.
Play your own drum,
No one else,
Can play it for you,
It’s your drum,
And
No one else should,
Only you,
Know the tunes,
Let people
Enjoy the tunes
By playing it yourself
Have the hands for it
Take courage
Play your own drum
Wake early in the morning
Prepare yourself
In morning sun
Put your drum
Have the stick ready
For the best tunes.
Play your own drum
No one else
Can play it for you
It’s your own drum
Prepare it yourself
For you alone
Know the tune of the drum
Don’t be worried
How well others play
You also
Can play better
Often we are so busy
Listening, watching
Others play their drums
That we don’t
Play our own
Practice always
Make perfect
Have the hand for it
Play your own drum
Be proud,
Of your own drum,
People are eager,
To listen to the tune,
The tune of your precious,
No specific qualification,
Needed to play well,
But will and seriousness.
Play it well and loud,
For it’s yours.
Play your own drum,
No one else,
Can play it for you.
Shall the driver,
Drive the tailors sewing machine?
Shall the farmer,
Harvest with the surgeon’s scalpel?
Shall the fisherman,
Paddle with the soldier’s gun?
Shall the nurse,
Inject with teachers chalk?
Shall the chef,
Bake the mason’s dough?
Then play on other’s drum
But your own!
Play your own drum,
Play it well and loud,
Have a grip of it and,
Use your talent,
Enjoy your own tune and do not be surprised,
Then, before the sum is done,
The sound of your drum,
They will dance.
To the tune of drum
And crown you!
