Respect It Is Earned

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 The leading barracker in the town's football club Does have the loudest voice in the local pub And yet of admirers he has quite a few On that fools look up to fools there is nothing new By listening we learn it does seem this way The town's wisest person is one with little to say If you are not open to knowledge such you cannot receive On such a philosophy one has to believe The town's wisest person a good listener for to give her what is her due I only say of her what i believe to be true.