We Love This Life More Poem by Shalom Freedman

WE LOVE THIS LIFE MORE

We love this life more
When we sense we will have to leave it soon
We love it more
When we see beauty or touch joy
We know cannot endure-

We hold on to what we know will be lost
And our sadness for ourselves
Is a sadness for others we love
We know one day will not be here also-

Even the earth itself
And the Universe and its distances
Are longed for by us
When we know they too
One day will be gone -