Shalom Freedman Poems

How many humiliations will I have to go through
Before the End comes?
How many small punctures and pains?
How many pleas for help unanswered?
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I may write still more
I should perhaps have been wiser
And concentrated on only a few
Over many years
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Where to begin again?
And how to begin again?
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After the afternoon nap
The mind has a new life
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It will never end-
It will always be with me
It will go with me all the way
To my own end-
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Is not a good poem-
The poem I write
And do not understand
Troubles me-
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Time and Sadness,
Time and Death-
Times of Life,
And Happiness-
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Tiredness and more tiredness-
It is just not having the energy
To do what once did-
It is a tiredness too of Mind
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The people as they once were
The longing for them
As they were then-

The longing for my own youth
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My father my father
My mother my mother
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