Courage
Challenges are not just MET by Carolyn.
As a child, she searched for them and took them in -
Running faster than the boys and spinning on her head.
Off roofs she jumped. It’s a wonder she isn’t dead!
Lacking fear, maybe she was foolish,
Yet she LIVED her life as she chased her every dream.
New challenges have come, and dauntless they seem.
Disease has brought her disabilities.
Expectations are extinguished. Her life has little of ease.
Viciously attacked, this brave woman who
Once played on a high school football team and coached gymnastics too
Now shows us nothing less than grace
Shining from the smile on her face.
Heroes come in many sizes, and one of them for me
I have named here poetically.
Read the first letter of each line and see what it spells out.
Earning my respect, this friend and poet is what courage is about.
12/16/16
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