Francis Duggan Respect Poems

Respect is what you earn not command
That is something some find hard to understand
You earn respect if respect you do show
From people in your life you've come to know
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Respect it is earned and cannot be won
Words of the wise woman to her grandson
The praises of fools by too many are sung
We should learn from our mistakes of when we were young
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How can I respect people who do not respect me
Who to others do not grant me my due equality
Since equality to others is everybody's due
That is if to one's higher self one wish to remain true
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If You respect yourself respect to others you'll show
Never judge a person that you do not know
But your political leaders feel free to praise or to criticize
Since their decisions impact on you that you must realize
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Before the baby walks the baby does crawl
In this respect what applies to one applies to all
Including the child of the monarch and the child born into poverty
Part of our Human Nature would you not agree
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Those who spend decades learning about Nature of Nature's ways will tell you they have much to know
Her deepest secrets we will never learn of and our wonder of her only seem to grow
One could live for a thousand years and yet not know all about her as her most precious secrets with us she will never share
And yet in part due to us she does seem much the poorer as many of her life forms either extinct or rare
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No respect dude the teenager said
Unhappy with me for not honouring the war dead
But his idea of what is respect is quite different to mine
He has his opinions and that suits me fine.
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Respect to it has more than a one sided way
Do not expect the respect of others if respect to them you don't pay
You treat other people as you'd like them to treat you
And in turn they will give you the respect you are due
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If you pay respect to where respect is due
And to your own higher self try to remain true
And treat everyone as an equal and all as the same
Your's ought to live on as a remembered name.
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We do crave respect it does seem this way
And we worry of what others think of us or say
And fear seems to stop most of speaking their mind
Preservation of self makes us this way inclined
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Respect the first Australians as you would like them to respect you
And sadly respect to them is overdue
Their ancestorshave lived in Australia for thousands of years
Instead of happiness the arrival of Cook and his sailors only brought them suffering and tears
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I respect all decent human beings but to none I dip my hat
And I would fight for no Country my life worth more than that
And I love all wildborn creatures and Nature is my queen
As she wears my favourite colours my favourite colours green
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Respect that other person he doesn't disrespect you
He search for the path to success the hard road he's been through
You may feel his best not good enough but at least he's game to try
There's more to life far more to life than me, myself and I.
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Respect the first Australians as you would like them to respect you
And sadly respect to them is overdue
Their ancestorshave lived in Australia for thousands of years
Instead of happiness the arrival of Cook and his sailors only brought them suffering and tears
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You cannot expect others to respect you
If you do not pay them the respect they are due
That respect is a thing that has two ways happens for to be true
It is something that has to be mutual and mutual at least includes two
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Treat others with respect and they will respect you
And to your higher self try to remain as true
A smile as is said does not come at a price
No it will not cost you a thing for to be nice
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One can choose to be rude or choose to be nice
On how we relate to others we do have a choice
On bushes and trees respect does not grow
And the respect given to us in return we do show
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How can i respect those who on me look down
Those who do support rank the snobs of the town
How arrogant and conceited they do seem to be
I can only respect those who do respect me
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Respect is a thing that has more than one way
That it has to be mutual seems true for to say
How can you respect one who does not respect you
Of sides to respect there has to be two
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To those who do not respect you respect why should you pay
Since respect is not one sided or not meant to be this way
It is not a genuine respect the respect born out of fear
Though of fear imposed on others by those in positions of power we do read of and we hear
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Since respect must go both ways would you not agree
I struggle to respect those who do not respect me
Those who see me as inferior to them in every way
Respect to them i do find it quite hard for to pay
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Everyone ought to be paid the respect to them that is due
But that some are not worth knowing happens to be true
The people who do not respect others and Nature by their deeds and the words they do say
Are not an asset to the World in any way
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They never receive genuine respect though respect they demand
Those who need power over others i will never understand
They do have in them this great need to control
The people afflicted by darkness of soul
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To your higher self you do not live as true
If you cannot pay others the respect they are due
If you find pleasure in your words of dragging others down
You are not a asset to your side of the town
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Respect is a thing you must give to receive
This is something that should not be hard to believe
On sayingyou cannot respect one who does not respect you
I only does say what happens to be true
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Respect Me as an equal and respect to you I'll pay
I'm too old for playing mind games I've never been that way
The one who derives pleasure in verbally putting others down
Will never be looked up to as the most loved one in town,
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Respect to them or their words I never do pay
The few who have told me to give rhyming away
I barely could bid them the time of the day
Unkind things of anyone does seem wrong to say.
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How can we respect those to whom we cannot relate
Yet let not our objects of lack of our respect become our objects of hate
They are entitled to their views as much as we are to ours
Though they may see us as the weeds that grow amongst the flowers
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Why should I respect those who do not respect me
Who look down upon me for my poverty
You should only respect those who show respect for you
At least to my own self I'll always be true.
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I respect them though the last post for them will not be played
And never in their honour will there be a parade
And yet their anthem for peace to my ears sounds so sweet
Those peace loving peace marchers who walk along the street.
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