Start With Compassion

Whatever the topic
However important your point
Whatever your heartfelt belief

Be it about
The healthiest way to eat
Or the best person to vote for

If you don’t start
With compassion

If you devalue

Another human

If you mock

If you behave
In ways
We put our 4^th graders
In time out for
 
If you are cruel

If you lack respect
And basic awareness
That another
Well thought out
But opposite opinion
Exists
 
Your words
Lose validity

Your well thought out opinion
Isn’t received

Words yelled back and forth
Never land

Disintegrate
Mid air

I think
We can all
Do better