Courage Is Never Wasted

Courage is never wasted. ~ Rush Limbaugh

You go out on a limb, 
feel like a fool, humiliated, 
miserable. You want to hide, 
bury your head, wear a disguise, 
change your name...
But your courage was not wasted, 
couldn't be, served its purpose. 
Maybe it was to pride you
to know how it feels, to move
in the right direction, to trust
your higher power, to understand
You live through the process. 
Maybe it was to serve as a model, 
to inspire sometime else, 
to mark the path. 
Maybe it was that you just don't see
results you set in motion, 
that the intended result needs time, 
an opportunity to germinate, 
a chance to attract like minds.
Courage is never wasted. 
It can be, often is, 
a triumph of and my itself.