Nervousness

How can a poem be written
About nervousness?
Nervousness is something
To be ashamed of
To be hidden
Not to be written about
It is not deep as pain
And meaningful
As real suffering
Nervousness is small
And weak and cowardly
And what is in me now
Writing is to free
Myself of it
Not make its celebration
Oh! Were I a better
And stronger human being
But I am too often nervous
And I am not!

- Nirmohi