If You Would Change the World

Take care, for what you plant will later be your harvest Sweet or bitter, it's your choice my friend Cast not forth seeds of anger nor bitterness nor fear The fruit of such is poison in the end Tread lightly as you pass let every step be measured where good seed may have earlier been sown Lest in a careless way you trample someone's garden and kill the goodly crop that might have grown May everything you do and all the words you speak build up and nurture everyone you meet When harvest time arrives the reaping will be joyful and the fruit thereof so full and bright and sweet If you would change the world for better in the long run begin by making changes in yourself Wait not for all the others to take this course of action Leave all of your excuses on the shelf Take up your seed and walk and start your garden planting sowing it in love along the way And bountiful will be the fruits of your hard labor growing ever sweeter every day