The future’s imagined, through comparison

Today can be lived, when there is compassion

To see a future, ego turns inward

To live in compassion, the heart must turn outward

Comparison is the mind’s old trick

Add in envy, it makes us sick

The mind that was once in contentment

Becomes the carrier of resentment

Compassion opens many doors

For whatever ails our peace, it offers cures

The mind watches in amazement

To go along, it will need to be patient

A compassionate heart holds no comparison

A mind that compares can’t harbor compassion

Comparison takes us into the past, a backward step

When compassion’s present, we won’t have a misstep