Courage is a lesion <br />That needs must lance <br />If faiths healing <br />Is to bleed and advance. <br />But, too do so… <br />The body of the whole! <br />Must; take up the surgeon’s scalpel <br />Without, any droll, <br />Excuses… and stab! <br />At the stagnant, yellow infliction… <br />Stab! Till it bleeds and drains- <br />Out: The diseased sulphuric infection. <br />Yes, woe betide <br />Any man or child, <br />Without; any spiritual, courage! <br />Without; any sacramental, images. <br />What, would there be to refine! <br />To give purpose too, <br />If all vintage wines <br />Were equally without, virtue. <br />If each cup; was equally soured. <br />If each cup were half empty, <br />Were half empty, where they, <br />Were once full too the plenty. <br />Courage would lean on faith <br />And, faith would guard our sentry.<br /><br />Mark Heathcote<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/courage-leans-on-faith/
