So Much Insult And Pain Poem by Shalom Freedman

SO MUCH INSULT AND PAIN

So much insult and pain-
So much we all have to bear -
Life is not easy for any of us.
Yet we go on
Finding in our small pleasures
In acts of kindness,
Meaning and consolation.

Life is difficult -
Endless disappointment -
Efforts which go nowhere-
Work unrealized-
People we love
Unable to realize their dreams
However we would help them -

Life is difficult
Friends lost
Sadness-

And yet and yet and yet
When we are here
The ‘best we can do’- perhaps.

And that never- ending vague prayer to God,
To make it ‘alright’ somehow.