I Do Not Have To Prove Anything Anymore Poem by Shalom Freedman

I DO NOT HAVE TO PROVE ANYTHING ANYMORE

I wake and laugh and sing and am happy
I do not have to prove anything anymore
Perhaps I never did
I am old enough to be forgotten
And since I was never known very much anyway
Being forgotten doesn't matter much either
I write and write
As I have for most of my life
And it gives my life meaning- sometimes
I am going on
Until I will not go on
All the while praying
That I and my world
And the Jewish people
And humanity
Will not have again
Some great disaster
I will go fairly soon
But please G-d
Keep alive those I love.