Wonderful poem my friend, I was never much good at chess, nor any other game, much to open and bold. I have NO poker face.......
But boy this poem sure brings home all those feelings of the hesitancy of making that first move. Many don't, and then learn later that someone was also just waiting for that first move, and they passed as two ships in the night. I guess better to commit and be turned down that to miss the chance completely.

More fish in that sea,
one of them for me.
~nea 7/2002
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