If You Cannot Love Yourself You Cannot Poem by Francis Duggan

The very wise woman she said to her son
If you cannot love yourself you cannot love anyone
The truth in her words is worthy of recall
If you cannot love yourself you cannot love anyone does apply to us all
The people with the gift of love for others do care
And the love that is in them with others they do share
To help those in need of helping they go out of their way
And they do perform their good deeds every day
Those who have love in them are great people indeed
And of more of their kind the Human World is in need
A few people with such a gift i feel privileged to know
One might say of them they have the inner glow
If you cannot love yourself you cannot love anyone
Just like the very wise mother did say to her son.