Patience in the pass of time Resurrects the need of mine To ponder why, the where, the when Mankind's courage tends to bend. Be it in the space of fear When a threat, perhaps, is near, Be it in when a smarter man Outwits with a sharper plan? What the odds when she who smiles Condescends our lesser wiles? Painful should we all rescind To insecurity's foul wind.
Why the quickened, racing pulse As faster challengers convulse? When hesitation in the heart Circumvents the courage part? Where that moments damning pause Kills legality's last clause? A gathered sweat on worried brow Nervous twitching reveals, now, Courage fled on wings of steel Crystalizing what is real... Hollow symptoms, (plain to me), Timidity's complicity!.
M. 18 July 2021
I see more and people standing back, not wanting to get involved while the heavies walk all over them. Timidity seems contagious in that most won't stick their neck out and back themselves. Whatever happened to the pride engendered by a performance involving courage and self respect? Whatever happened to self esteem?