The Last Will Not Be Remembered (So Kohelet Teaches) Poem by Shalom Freedman

The Last Will Not Be Remembered (So Kohelet Teaches)



The last will not be remembered
Nor the first-
Nothing and no one
Will be remembered
However great or good-
So Kohelet teaches.

We remember Kohelet
Again and again
Every Shabbat of Sukkot
And not us alone
Others too remember Kohelet
Who was once a Preacher in Jerusalem
He too will not be remembered, he says
As he teaches us to remember God.

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Shalom Freedman

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