IF

If you can treat the same, each face you meet
No matter their color nor creed they seek
If you can trust all can be sincere
And Ignore the media in your ear
If you can hope and not get tired of hoping
Or not be swayed when criticized
Or keep courage when back's turn to face you
And make belief louder than their sighs

If you can achieve and not be conceited
If you can help but not make glory why
If you can treat as you should be treated
And raise those who need it way up high
If you can watch your darkest day back
Played out on a massive screen
Keep your nerve when faced with attack
And keep a steel grip on your dream
If you can know that friends will hurt you
Yet not judge them harder than you do yourself
If you can see the hardest job through
And not blame mistakes on someone else

If you can force your hart to cry out
For those who don't deserve your care
If you can whisper over their shout
And when without still learn to share

If you can keep your sense of own
Even when lost in a crowd
If you can check your voice's tone
Be gracious when your feeling proud

If you can look at all that I've wrote
Then tick on each and every line
If you can give my lost sole some hope
Show me light for i've been blind

Trick-e (c)

http://www.thinkaloo.com