I Walk Slowly/The Morning Prayer Done Poem by Shalom Freedman

I WALK SLOWLY/ THE MORNING PRAYER DONE

I walk slowly
The morning prayer done-
A new week a new year begins
With the same old questions and problems-

I will not get anywhere else
I have done what I have done.

I pray I will go on for some years
In relative good health-
And when the end comes
It will not be too long or too painful
For myself and for others.

I walk home slowly
I have not conquered the world
And I am not going to.