You Can’t Fool Mother Nature

Mama has a garden

and she can grow most anything

She puts her heart and soul in it

And ties it up with string

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She marks it with a color

waters it with love

She shows she has a green thumb

And then smothers them in hugs

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Margie is magenta

Billy blazes it in blue

She has one picked for everybody

Every shade and every hue

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Pink picked for Pricilla

Yellow for Yolette

She makes them bold and beautiful

So you never will forget

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That each of us is special

Like a snowflake, none alike

Uniquely awesome and essential

like the glow of northern lights

Extraordinarily unique

with the colors of the wind

And we share a common unity

that binds us all as friends

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My color blended with yours

makes a shade no ones ever seen

Never seen before

and never will again

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She raised me to believe

that we all belong together

So let’s roll up our sleeves

and create a world, simply for the pleasure

We’ll need grays and whites

green and black too

We need all types

to set the mood

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Not more than one

a special blend

That uses all the best on hand

to display the masterpiece she had planned, pictured in her head

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Yeah, mama has a garden

full of rare and precious flowers

She cares for each like there’s just one

and fills it up with power

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Some need the rain and shadows

others direct sun and full heat

She teaches everything she knows

until growing is complete

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Her flowers are her children

from each and every nation

And she’s so much more than mama

the name she sports, is Mother Nature

So make yourself a note

write it down and don’t forget it

You are a special project

so no matter how hard it gets

All of us have a beauty

No one can deny

But we’re more beautiful together

And we were born to fly