Shalom Freedman Poems

POEMS TO LOVE LIFE MORE


The world wants poems
That metaphor its meaning's intensity
Songs of Life and Beauty
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WE CAME BACK

We came back
Who would have believed it possible?
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THERE IS GRIEF THAT NEVER ENDS

There is grief that never ends
And pain that never goes away
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There is nothing in me
I am as empty as meaninglessness
Yet I am anxious
I have done nothing today
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I am taking up space-

The better quality of others
Would have more room without me-

Perhaps it is better that I not write at all
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WHEN THE LAST POEM IS WRITTEN

When the last poem is written
And there is nothing more to be said
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There is so much I miss
So many people so many times so many worlds
So much-

We will never wholly be what we are
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I WROTE A FEW WORDS

I wrote a few words
And the Guilt and the Sadness and the Regret
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As I could when I was young
Now my Sadness is older than all Literature
It has a grave before it
And many graves of friends all around
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My sense of my own meaninglessness
Suddenly disappeared-
I realized I had done something with my life
I had spoken truly of what I knew and felt-
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