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Only Courage
Prompt:
Have fun with these four cliche phrases and these four words--- I smell a rat, a lone wolf, a bite at the cherry, a cut below, essential, notion, passion and knock!
Only Courage

“I smell a rat,” I said at dawn,
when the sky became
a pale-blue *notion of
what it meant to begin again.

In the hallway of my *essential days,
where doubt would *knock
I stood as “a lone wolf”
by habit,
but not by heart.

Perhaps, I feared this chance
was only “a bite at the cherry,”
one brief sweetness...then,
the stem went bare

and I called myself “a cut below,”
measuring my worth
against louder voices,
brighter rooms,
fancy people,

but you had seen my *passion
and how it lifts the ordinary
into something fierce
and shining.

There is no rat here tonight,
only courage,
and the steady rhythm
of my knuckles that *knock
and knock again
until your door opens
to my light.



 
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