Shalom Freedman Poems

It is gone
It will never return
My time of strength
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Without a poem
I lose the meaning of my life
I wonder why I am
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THE WORLD WAS SILENT THEN

The world was silent then-
Six million Jews among them more than one- and one- half million children murdered by the Nazis and their helpers-
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THE STARS ARE SO INNOCENT


The stars are so innocent
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THANK GOD FOR SLEEP FOR REST

Thank God for sleep for rest
For my coming back to life again-
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I love my poetry pure and personal
The feelings of the single soul
In loneliness and love
In sadness and in happiness
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EVEN IF I AM NOT GREAT

Even if I am not great
I can still live-
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SO LITTLE OF OUR LIFE REALLY REMEMBERED

So little of our life really remembered Almost all we have lived is as if it never were-
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I walk the night
And think about
So many friends
No longer here
Kind people wise people good people
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The Poem started to be one thing
And became another -
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