Shalom Freedman Poems

THERE IS A POEM AT THE END OF THE HILL
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I HAVE TO GET BACK TO GOD


I have to get back to God
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WHAT I AM AND WHAT I AM NOT

What I am and what I am not
Does not matter-
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I PRAY TO YOU

I pray to You
You hear me
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ARE THERE POEMS FOR THE POOR?

Are there poems for the poor?
What are they about?
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WHEREVER I WALK

Wherever I walk
A poem walks with me-
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ISN’T IT NECESSARY TO THANK GOD

Isn’t it necessary to thank God
When after morning prayer
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I AM AS OLD AS THE POEM I WILL NEVER WRITE

I am as old as the poem I will never write-
As old as all I have never done,
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THESE POEMS THESE SONGS THIS BEAUTY THIS LIFE

These poems these songs this beauty this life-
All that I hear inside me
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I HAVE HEARD ONLY MY OWN SILENCE TODAY

I have heard only my own silence today-
And what I am trying to do now
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