On Courage

It has little to do with bravery
or fear
or rugged badassery
 
It’s the letting go  
laying down
that fuckit moment
in a set jaw
when inaction feels more dangerous
than meeting a tiger of terror
 
***
 
Faced with the option of  
being torn to obstinate shreds
left for dead
or
languishing in the rot of regret  
agonizing endlessly over what ifs
 
I’ll take the tiger



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