Courage

Courage gives us 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 find that place where it does hide.

Courage is locked away and the key they never find,
Fear keeps them from the key 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 does plop.

Courage takes no sides, no favorites 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 in our path in life,
We hope the next life change brings us no strife.

A hand full of days change us, make us who we are,
Shape us into what we've become, put us on our par.
Make us what everyone sees, how we speak when we talk,
Put us on that path in life that we walk

They usually happen on big event days,
Getting married, and our first kid change our ways.
But they happen on days that seem like nothing that day,
Yet they can be so huge 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!