This poem speaks of courage as I have come to know it.
I have come to know courage by not being afraid to seeing it in others.
So, Courage is now a collection of ways to see it.
I’ve been a brave girl …from the beginning …
in a particular way.
Brave to stand in what I couldn’t look away from.
And speak to it
as if nothing else existed.
But Brave …
could have been another
who suffered in patience
with a different insight
Into standing in the moment.

We must all carry Bravery from where we are – at some point.
But it doesn’t envelop all that we need to be brave for.

I could imagine
that Bravery
like every other distinction
is a characteristic of being human …
And to assume that , it opens our awareness to acts of Bravery
that are not our own.

I could not be Lori.
So, I am not.
As much as jumping from a plane
As well as facing death in pain.

But, I am a certain kind of warrior.