Courage
Courage
Courage gives us the strength to jump life's gaps
But the unknown road to courage has no maps
For most it stays locked away somewhere inside
They never discover that place where it finds to hide
Courage is locked away and the key to it they never find
Fear keeps them from the key hidden in a corner of their mind
The path of life has many a strange trail
Lacking courage is why many of us fail
I don't know where it is that courage has been stowed
It kind of follows along emotions tough road
Sometimes your conviction to anger it stops
Other times, right beside fear, it just plops
Courage takes no sides, no favorites that it plays
It can be impressive, or simple as a kiss some days
But courage lays there inside of us all
Waiting for each one of us to make the call
When we summon up courage to come to our aid
What most consider impossible, we see get made
Courage can be there in our darkest hours
But we must call on courage and make it ours
The simplest fact is that good or bad
All those life changing days we've all had
They put a marker on our path in life
We hope the next life change brings us no more strife
A hand full of days change us and makes us who we are
Shapes us into what we've become, and puts us on our par
It makes us what everyone sees and shapes how we speak when we talk
Put us on the path in life that we walk
They usually happen on big event days
Getting married, and our first kid changes our ways
But they happen on days that seem like nothing that day
Yet they can be so huge that they take our breathe away
The point is, courage is something that you can't buy
It's inside us, find it or don't there is no try
If we don't, if we are weak and we pale
If we don't find our courage, then we fail
Courage is required for everything we seek
Even more to win Love, for when there we're weak
The wind never catches in Love's sail
If we don't find our courage, even at Love we fail!
Copyright © Thomas Binford | Year Posted 2024
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