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Both Simultaneously the Smartest Wise and Cleverest Person I Knew
As throwaway as this comment
may seem to anyone but i
And bearing in mind my limited
experience and knowledge
thus far in life
I still can say and make this
statement without a shodow
of doubt
That the most smartest , wise
and cleverest person i have
ever met in my life
Was in fact my both my father
and so to my dad
And though by modern definition
he was neither book smart or
well educated
His council was above and beyond
the pale of the life , body and brain
here on earth he inhabited
He knew thing's on reflection
20 year's before they came to
bare and surfaced in reality
Unfortunately for him luck
and good fortune we're
not his forte
Ahead of time in every way
yet nothing went or was
pre-destined to go his way
But he never was shy or hid away
from anything if he truly believed
in it
And even in death he never caved
or gave an inch
He stood his ground till the
bitter yellow cancer end
and what at 1st would be
perceived as stubborn
Was in fact rather a mark
of a man with conviction
in spades
Who would rather dig his
own grave and be buried
alive
Than sell out his soul and
die and stare death in the
face on his own terms
Safe in the knowledge knowing
the reaper despatched to cull
him
Had met and was no more an
intellectual match for him or
on a parr or his level
And that he would get the
final say and last word in
And i know this for a fact
because he was far more clever
and wiser
Than i and life and death has
ever met
And probably the reason he
was stolen and taken back
from us
Way to soon before his time
In order to release him from
this earthly prison that was
unable to realise appreciate
and acknowledge his true genius
Apart from those of us
who we're luckily blessed
enough to have spent and
shared some of his short
time on earth we we're gifted
with him
Copyright ©
Christopher Flaherty
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