If you can - by Harold Romine
If you can cause
Your fellow man to think
Thoughts that are above
The common realm
If you can gladly
Take the oar in hand
And let another stand
There at the helm
If you can let
The lonely know
They have a friend
And help them
Walk with you
And smile again
If you can hold
A tear stained face
Between your hands
And help them see
Through vision blurred
And understand
If you can
Slow your step
Enough to walk
With weary ones
And help them
Down the road
If you can walk
In spite of trial
And heart ache
Although you stumble
Now and then
Beneath your load
If you can be aware
Of those around you
And stop long enough
To hold a wrinkled hand
And remember
How it was
When He first found you
And how it really wasn’t
Something you had planned
If you can give yourself
And not regret it
And reach out
And be unafraid
To touch
Then be this known
By you sister and brother
Heaven itself
Would have you do
As much