How is courage encouraged?

Courage is neither a rage,
Nor....just another blank page!
It is a human trait found in scarce
Sparse too, in the current corporate race!

How do you gauge courage?
How do you encourage?
How do you leverage?
Why is it not found in percentages above the average?

Does it age as you age?
Till you become a noble sage?
Why is it so difficult to locate,measure and gauge?
Where does one rummage?

Isn't courageousness contagious?
Or, as a trait: it is shallow and disadvantageous?

Can it be bought for a wage?
Is it sold only on front a page?
To be bought and confined to a golden cage?
To shine up a pseudo image?
Thanks to fancy degrees and and an eight digit corporate wage!

Is it restricted to cities towns?
Isn't it worn and with smiles and not frowns?
Is it more of moral?
Or, is it just floral?
To seek a brownie point as a Laurel!

Isn't it an inner strength bread as a bold image?
Not found anywhere: in loud cities, towns and the silent village?
In short supply, thanks to prevalent greed and desire,
That have ever since become the ire.
Its' lack; now a days, leading to only moral pillage!

How is courage duplicated, replicated and implicated?
Is it mentored and created?
Or, is it by example dissipated?
By observation...emulated?

It surely is a worthy...mirth!
For all its noble worth.
Is it a trait in-born by birth?
Does it increase with your waists' girth?

When and wherever it is lacking..
Is it worth stacking?
Or, is it to be imbibed by kicking and whacking?

While imbibing if one is cracking...
Does it help...by raving and mocking?

With mock... does it rock?
To set in steady and firm...like a rock?
Or, it lands one in the dock?

How do you take stock?
With fights? As a Cock?
Or, with jaws in an silent interlock!
On the run... and as you walk?

Is it a trait displayed with gait,
Upright and straight?
With or without heavy weight?
Or, by casual-tardiness as seen in corporates: of late!

Does courage walk the talk?
Or just talk the talk...and bark!
To be baulked and to baulk, as an indolent habit...
To hunt with the horses and run with the rabbit!
As a compounded,confounded, nasty immoral,habit!

Arun
Alias
Axee