Things You Cannot Do

You cannot belly laugh at a funeral Nor you can bewail at a wedding; You cannot shed crocodile tears when hurt, You cannot turn blue When feeling blue Nor turn red when angry; Feeling envious won't turn you green! You cannot eat a horse no matter how hungry Nor drink an ocean no matter how thirsty; You cannot take back words once spoken Nor retrieve a bullet once fired. You cannot dress up a naked truth Nor color a white lie; Walls may have ears But you cannot make them tell the tales of yore; You cannot hear with the ear of a corn Nor see with the eye of a needle. You cannot hear yourself snoring, Nor fly away with your imagination. You cannot do nothing Nor go nowhere? You cannot grasp a bubble Nor seize the time. ~Humor contest by Carol Eastman