We all love to be praised that's a natural thing <br />And it makes us feel good when others our praises sing <br />And the truth can be hurtful would you not agree <br />At least the truth proves harder to swallow for me, <br />Few of us like a liar to say so would seem fair <br />Yet still fewer of us the raw truth can bear <br />Are they telling us something of us we do not wish to hear? <br />Most of us are shy of self improvement or so 'twould appear, <br />Within their own mind the thought some do create <br />That they are quite special and they feel irate <br />When others the truth of them to their face tell <br />They tell them quite rudely you can go to hell, <br />We all love to be praised that's human one suppose <br />But show me the garden where one weed never grows.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-all-love-to-be-praised/
