It Is No Longer About Beginning Again Poem by Shalom Freedman

It is no longer about beginning again
It is now about finishing
What you began in the past-
And you do not know
If you will have the strength the courage the will -

For what does it matter what they will say and think
about what you have done
If you are no longer here?

So it is more difficult to go on now
More difficult to try and finish-

For what will it give you
Except perhaps the meaning you feel in working now
The help it gives in better going on now
The diminishing somewhat of the despair
That comes near the end of life
And is with you now despite yourself
As you write this-