Consideration

If words should settle on your tongue,
with the potential to be hurtful to someone,
please hold them there and think them through,
will they hurt this person, even if they’re true?
If the answer is yes, consider this,
are your comments perhaps a little thoughtless?
Your careless words could cut them deep,
do you want to be reason to make them weep?
If only more people thought, before they speak,
How would I feel, if it were me?
they’d realise, their words could be better used,
to encourage others, rather than to cut and bruise.