Vocabulary:
abuse/compassion / course / dictate / duplicate / feeble / moral / nonchalant / senseless / taunt
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You’ve got to have compassion.
Another morning, getting ready for school,
I had a bowl of cereal, some juice, and everything’s cool.
So I put on my shoes and get ready to walk,
And make my daily trip to the bus stop.
It was cold—hey, at least it didn’t snow,
But when the bus came, we were all ready to go.
So as usual, I sit in the back,
Next to this kid from another neighborhood, Zach.
Now Zach‘s cool, but you could say he was feeble,
A little quieter and weaker than other people.
For this reason the other kids would taunt him,
Call him bad names and throw insults upon him.
Now Zach didn’t deserve this abuse,
For the mean words they used, there was no excuse.
But I pretended to be nonchalant,
Calm and unconcerned with what was going on.
But that’s when I heard a voice in my head,
It sounded like my conscience, and this is what she said:
Man, you ought to be ashamed; this bullying is senseless,
There is no reason that you’re leaving him defenseless.
I’ll tell you what to do; it is my job to dictate,
You’ve got to change your course,
Or plan of action, for the kid’s sake.
So here’s your chance to wheel it back and do it over,
The moral of the story is the lesson that I’ll show you.
Compassion—you’ve got to have compassion,
You see somebody suffering, you’ve got to take action.
Well, what kind of action? Take away the pain,
If you help people then they will do the same.
Compassion? Yeah, you’ve got to have compassion.
You see somebody suffering, you’ve got to take action.
Um, what kind of action? Take away the pain,
Let’s try this again and you can make the change.
Another morning, getting ready for school,
I had a bowl of cereal, some juice, and everything’s cool.
So I put on my shoes and get ready to walk,
And make my daily trip to the bus stop.
It was cold—hey, at least it didn’t snow,
But when the bus came, we were all ready to go.
So as usual, I sit in the back,
Next to this kid from another neighborhood, Zach.
Now Zach‘s cool, but you could say he was feeble,
A little quieter and weaker than other people.
For this reason the other kids would taunt him,
Call him bad names and throw insults upon him.
But Zach didn’t deserve this abuse,
For the mean words they used, there was no excuse.
This time I couldn’t be nonchalant,
I was way too concerned with what was going on.
I told the other kids Zach was my friend,
And asked them to not be mean to him again.
Then they kind of laughed ’cause they thought I was faking,
They didn’t realize the new path I had taken.
I said, “The reason ya’ll attack and harass is
You’re embarrassed about your pimples and your glasses.”
Together all of us could be cool if we all lived by the golden rule of...
Compassion—you’ve got to have compassion, You see somebody suffering, you’ve got to take action.
What kind of action? Take away the pain,
If you help people then they will do the same.
Compassion—you’ve got to have compassion,
You see somebody suffering, you’ve got to take action.
Yeah, what kind of action? Take away the pain,
And that’s what I did; I’m really glad I made the change.
Nice! You did the right thing and I’m proud of you,
The other kids will duplicate, that’s do the same and follow you.
You showed strength today in doing what you got to do,
It’s hard to know what’s right, and even harder still to follow through.
You saw somebody’s pain and then you took action,
To help him out and that’s the meaning of compassion.
You’re more than just a kid; you acted like a man today,
The moral of the story is the lesson that you take away.
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