COURAGE
No dress rehearsal
Apprehension fades
Cocky makeshift illusionist
Cloaked in reckless press
Stage fright
Melting with the glaciers
Reasons are unclear
Only lame excuses
Exhortation
Hope
Courage
To speak
Without being spoken to
Poets bleed
Lovers swoon
Babies cry
Turbulent inertia
Plagues our fertile plains
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2007
