Shalom Freedman Poems

THE POEMS COME OUT OF MY SOUL

The poems come out of my soul-
They are my soul-
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TO WALK INTO THE WIND AND THE COLD IN JERUSALEM

To walk into the wind and the cold in Jerusalem
And to feel suddenly
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WALKING HOME FROM SHUL

Walking home from Shul
After early morning davvening
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WHEN I THINK OF MYSELF AS DEAD

When I think of myself as dead
I think of what it will mean for my loved ones
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There are times when I am not afraid to die-
But sometimes I am so afraid I frighten myself -
And other times when I don’t know exactly what I feel
Not to speak of the times I try to deny to myself,
When I somehow wish I was out of it and it was over already-
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Without our dreams we cannot be-
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Nothing of this sadness in me
Knows why it exists-
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The poems are not written-
Nothing is done-
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A man went in search of a Poem
He searched everywhere he walked
He searched inside himself
He searched inside the poems of others
He searched and searched -
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The Past is an old man’s poem
And all he was
And all he can never be again
And all the people he loved
No longer here-
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