All This Feeling Poem by Shalom Freedman

ALL THIS FEELING

All this feeling
What is it?
All these feelings
What do they mean?

They come and overwhelm me
The Love the Pain the Sadness
The Longing in so many ways
The mixed up joy and sadness also

Feelings I have no name for
Slight feelings and dark feelings and light feelings

Feelings that come suddenly
And feelings that just wait in me all the time

All these feelings
As if they are more than I myself am

And are beyond me

And yet on the verge of tears
I am moved beyond my own understanding


Oh God what is all this
And what is my life
And what does it all mean?

And when I die
What will become of it

All the feeling
All the feelings

And me and my sadness and my mind and my love
And my life
And all the loss and longing

And what never goes away
And is blessed and holy and will be gone forever

Unless You save it
For what?