If You Would Have Compassion

If you would have compassion for others First have compassion for yourself Stop beating up on yourself If from the straight and narrow you stray If you get off of your diet for a day If not every dragon you slay Acknowledge your errors; move on They're not worth lingering upon Rather, tell yourself that you are good That you always do your best like you should That you'd take in strangers and stray animals if you could That someday youll build your family that cabin in the woods Soon you'll do all the things that you've planned You'll set up your child's lemonade stand You'll kick start your teen's rock-n-roll band You'll help them build their castles in the sand For now that on you yourself compassion have shown Its seeds on beloved others will surely be sown