There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
SHEL SILVERSTEINThere is a place where the sidewalk ends.
SHEL SILVERSTEINAnything is possible. Anything can be.
SHEL SILVERSTEINAnd all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
SHEL SILVERSTEINIt’s all the same to the clam.
SHEL SILVERSTEINListen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me, Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
SHEL SILVERSTEINThis boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
SHEL SILVERSTEINI know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
SHEL SILVERSTEINAnd the tree was happy.
SHEL SILVERSTEINI’ve found my missin’ piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I’ve found my missin’ piece.
SHEL SILVERSTEINSometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
SHEL SILVERSTEINBut all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
SHEL SILVERSTEINThe baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
SHEL SILVERSTEINWe can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
SHEL SILVERSTEINI keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
SHEL SILVERSTEINShe had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, Then passed right by – And never knew.
SHEL SILVERSTEINOnce there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN