Beyond The Poem Poem by Shalom Freedman

BEYOND THE POEM

Beyond the poem
Beyond any and all words
Are the feelings
Which names can only imperfectly echo -

Why we live and why we die
We try to say
But all that we feel
Moves through us as a mystery
We only hint at with our words
And guess at with our definitions -

We live and we feel beyond Poetry
And nothing not even the words of humble denial
Can touch us when we are out far beyond where we were born alone.