A big thank you to ILA Magazine for publishing my poem this month.

AT THE VERY EDGE OF COURAGE

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Develop the daring of a lion
and the intrepidity of an adventurer.
Create a reservoir of mettle and pluck.
Increase fortitude as you preserve
through the murkiest dark along
any highway of people.


For who else should you depend on when things collapse?
How will you record your own history,
even as you walk into the present,
still unknown at that moment?
 

Run or be run over?
We must speak of the third option:
stand strong and carry as much as you can,
and lay out your energies for others' sake.


Do all this while attaining your own ideal,
for the worst of humanity does not understand
that one must make a difference in a good way,
and the best are too busy loving others to judge.