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Courage is to do it no matter how afraid you are.
And that's all I have to say about courage,
Except to admit that I don't have much.
It must have been in short supply
the day I was born.
I was scanted. Given not even the bare minimum
with which to make my way.
And yet I did.
I made my way from there to here
(please don't ask me to do it again).
I held the fort,
steered the creaky, leaky bark through storms.
I crossed the desert,
braved the forests' beasts—
And landed where I am.
Was it courage that carried me through?
Well, if my original definition is true
(and not just the product of a self-justifying mind),
then I can say that courage brought me here.
Stubbornness, necessity, the lack of other options—
all these pushed and pulled me
through the worst of it.
And now?
Now is the time of looking back,
of giving spades their true name,
of stripping off the story to reveal the bones
that rattle from the past.
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