Courage

Courage is the price that Life exacts

Courage

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

The soul that knows it not

Knows no release from little things

Knows not the livid loneliness of fear

Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings.

How can life grant us boon of living

Compensate for dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate

And pregnant hate

Unless we dare

Unless we dare

The soul′s dominion?

Each time we make a choice, we pay

With courage

With courage

To behold the resistless day

And count it fair

Courage

Courage is the price that Life exacts