Tuesday 22 March 2022

Poetry: Courage

 

I originally wrote this poem and published it on Medium -

- because Iris B. Stehn over there was doing a writing prompt, so I wrote it for that.

I figured I'd share it here so that you could all see it too, 'cos I'm nice like that. 😊


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Courage


You never climbed a mountain
You never fought a war
You never ran a marathon
So what was it all for?


Flash-bang features don’t mean everything
Barely anything
to me
Showy signals aren’t for truth
Just for everyone to see


True courage rarely roars
It whispers and it purrs —
It smiles and strokes a loved one’s hand
despite the urge to curse.
It climbs a different mountain,
rolling out of bed each day.
It fights a daily, mundane, battle
and carries on its way.
The marathon it runs
will never win the race,
but true courage is content
to move at its own pace.







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6 comments:

  1. Beautiful, Cee! This poem reminds me of a line in one of my favourite musicals, Newsies: "courage cannot erase our fears. Courage is when we face our fears."

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  2. "True courage rarely roars
    It whispers and it purrs
    [...]
    It climbs a different mountain,
    rolling out of bed each day.
    It fights a daily, mundane, battle
    and carries on its way."

    I love it! Especially the verses above.

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