Shalom Freedman Poems

I WRITE THESE LINES

I write these lines
to prove that I am alive
...

EVEN IF I GIVE UP

Even if I give up
All the Dreams of Writing
...

Whose green is Beauty each morning
Today swaying violently in the wind
Could be Death-

We see with who we are
...

These cold grey winter days
Which come so rarely in Jerusalem
Bring me back
To Troy New York in my childhoo
...

Life's adventure has not ended yet
I may be old
But I will not give up-

If I have to begin again
...

I WAS WAITING FOR THE DARKNESS TO TELL ME

I was waiting for the Darkness to tell me
Its time to disappear,
...

I walked to Shul as fast as I can
In order to run away from myself
Perhaps I would find there something else
Or some other part of myself
...

Nothing else can say what the music does
Who knows why such feeling comes so strongly?
And who knows what that feeling is?
Love? Longing? Poignancy beyond description?
...

You are the dream come true
After two - thousand years of exile
The dream of courage and miracle
Against all odds
...

THE RACE TO GREATNESS

I am still in it
I am still on my feet
...