If You respect yourself respect to others you'll show <br />Never judge a person that you do not know <br />But your political leaders feel free to praise or to criticize <br />Since their decisions impact on you that you must realize <br />If you so wish you can heed or ignore my advice <br />Those with only personal power leave to their own device <br />Since any personal decisions they make do not impact on you <br />As you'd like them to treat you likewise to them do <br />Anyone if they so choose with their words can be unkind <br />And if you look for flaws in others then flaws you will find <br />Those kind with their words to their higher selves true <br />We receive from life what is only our due <br />Those into trash talking I for one don't condone <br />Let the one without sin come and cast the first stone.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-you-respect-yourself/
