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Alison Cassidy - I Never Would Have Had the Nerve

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I never would have had the nerve
when you were around...
With your bright mind,
and your academic prowess
and your acerbic
(adorable)
wit.

A wordsmith par excellence -
published no less -
you penned
persuasively,
pedagogically,
perspicaciously.
(I often needed a dictionary)

I never would have had the nerve
when you were around...
so I hid in the shadow
of your intellectual rigor,
typing your scrawl
(you should have been a doctor)
and offering you
draft after exhaustive draft
until it was perfect.

I never would have had the nerve
when you were around...
but you're not here any more
are you?
And I am learning,
day by day
to tell MY story.

Alison Cassidy

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-never-would-have-had-the-nerve/