Shalom Freedman Poems

THE POEM OF YESTERDAY REREAD TODAY

The poem of yesterday reread today
No longer is a poem-
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ALL THESE WORDS/ ALL THESE YEARS

All these words
All these years
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WE ARE ALL LOST IN OUR OWN SMALL LIVES

We are all lost in our own small lives
Which seem to be the world to us
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WHO WILL OUR ULTIMATE HEIRS BE?

Who will our ultimate heirs be
Will they even look like us?
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MANKIND IS GOING TO BE

Mankind is going to be
Like Moshe at the feet of Rabbi Akiva
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THE DAYS THE YEARS GO BY

The days the years go by
We love who we love-
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HIS WORK IS HIS POEM

His work is his poem
And if he does not write
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FEW POEMS ARE REMEMBERED

Few poems are remembered -
Few poems are ever really known-
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AFTER YEARS OF STRIVING TO WRITE MY OWN LIFE

After years of striving to write my own life
The music came and the wisdom right-
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WE DIE/ AND ABANDON AND BETRAY

We die
And abandon and betray
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