​Remember, Friend

Remember, Friend, that what you hear
Goes quickly in and out your ear.
The physics also will apply
To all that enters through your eye.
So, when you see discordant tweets
Aimed to anger those in streets,
Think, don’t act, and use your brain;
It is, for peace, there to restrain.
 
And don’t allow both sight and sound
To stay within and rattle round
To build an anger that will seethe
That will persist while you can breathe.
You have advantage and a flaw
In holding what you heard and saw.
Remember good and not the bad,
Especially what will make you mad.
 
In troubled times you should forget
Lest you act and then regret.