Where Courage Lives
Courageous are those in smallest rooms
Who stare at darkness and wildly plan
How a meal for six can be made tomorrow
From what might not nourish one slender man
Courageous are the women who lie so still
The very bones of their bodies ache
Rather than let their anxious men
Know that they too lie awake
Courageous are the men who work all day
To climb the walls, to make a gain
To keep them fed, against the rain
A brittle wind for counterpane
Yet praise their lives with some content
And fill with love what anguish spent
Submitted for Constance's mini contest...."Courage"
Copyright © Carrie Richards | Year Posted 2010
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