Respect to it has more than a one sided way <br />Do not expect the respect of others if respect to them you don't pay <br />You treat other people as you'd like them to treat you <br />And in turn they will give you the respect you are due <br />You may be the wealthiest and most powerful person in your town <br />And you feel that you have the right for to put others down <br />And others respect you or so to you it does appear <br />But between feigned and true respect the difference is quite clear <br />Despotic leaders believe the masses them do revere <br />But this sort of feigned adulation is adulation through fear <br />To protest in such circumstance they'd be risking their own lives <br />And the lives of their children as well as their wives <br />If you do not respect then respect do not expect to receive <br />Just a known fact of life that one ought to believe.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/respect-to-it/
