For Every Time There Is A Poem Poem by Shalom Freedman

FOR EVERY TIME THERE IS A POEM

For every time there is a poem
And for every season also
For life there is a poem
And for the end of life
For what we love and what we hate
For what we are and what we are not
For our vanity and for our most caring love
For our goodness and for our failings in goodness
For what is and what is not
For what was and what will be
For all things and times and seasons
There is a poem –

But perhaps
Beyond what our mind and reason can know
There is a time too
When no poem
However good or great or wise
Can speak of what we feel-

No poem as deep as the silence of Awe
And Gratitude to G-d.