Shalom Freedman Poems

It has happened
And it will happen
Without being asked
Without being told
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There is the poem
Of the single meaning
That is perhaps not truly a poem
I have written many of them-
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Disappointment at the end of life
The sum of it all
As not positive
What have I done?
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This is who I am
I may be nothing at it
But I am at home
I am where I am
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My generation will soon be gone
All my friends
A whole world
And what we have done
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Not even one person in the world
Not even those who care about me
Fully understand me
Understand the problems questions complications doubts troubles
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I have been silent
But now at this moment
I am called from within
I do not know
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Should I regret
Having lived my life
For a mistake?
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I don't want to know anymore
The distant future is too distant
And it seems too hopeless
And what there is to hope for really?
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To look old
Is a sad kind of thing
Its not that you were ever anything much
But once there was some kind of vague hope
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