Courage Poem by James McLain

Without courage,
Many have hidden from death, to face it's last beat
Knowing without you, life marched on living right past you.
Wherever you are at today once the past,
Stanch in your chest beats a heart beat, that
Bullets and bombs, with courage can't reach.

Weakness to chance wild sexy woman and
Women whom seek the dangerous man's not a flaw!
Courage you'll need, when standing alone against
That blood stained wall, any can see bullet riddled.
To keep her single child alive she swallowed her pride,
Knowing the line went on and seemed endless.

Many of us in great times of stress relied on the depths
Of our deep dark depression,
Or manic and blurry on top of the cloud's, the world faster
Spinning with to many words.
And having the courage to face mental illness, defined by those
Whom still stay hidden and will never face you.

Later,
If you are one of the lucky, facing old age and laying
Still from a stroke, unable to speak an unnatural condition,
Will your courage desert you,
and in leaving behind a living will so death can then find you?
Or being that one wordsmith as so many poets, living before you
Left being young, was it courage turning their back,
That to many here know not what that has caused it.



Copyright © James McLain | Year Posted 2018