In a recent edition of my newsletter, Creative Careers Unleashed, I talked about strategies for finding the courage you need to make the changes you want and need to make.
Along that theme, I’d like to share this poem I wrote in 1987:
Courage
Cowards are we all,
Who easy choices make.
Fear whispers
In every ear,
Few choose
Not to heed.
Seldom to us
Is given greatness,
And, it is not
The grand acts
That make us great.
Rather,
Small choices
Carved out of despair,
Forged in pain.
Choosing life’s hurtful embrace.
Not for other’s
Scant approval.
But, for self,
We do that
Which we must do.
Living for ourselves
Is never easy.
We stand alone,
Balanced at the edge.
Giving no thought to others,
We fall amongst the uncaring.
Heed too much others’ calls,
We join the sheeplike masses.
And, yet all this knowing
We dare to say,
“I choose.â€
