I Don't Want To Regret The Poems I Did Not Write Poem by Shalom Freedman

I don't want to regret the poems I did not write
In the time I was so sick
Away from any dream of meaning through words-
I don't want to regret
All I lost by not being here
Though it all be nothing forever in the eyes of the universe-

I live the meaning of each moment
And each poem lives with me-

When I am not
And the poems are not
Nothing may say anything for them-

But if I am here and still can pretend
If I am well enough to write again
These words too may perhaps touch the face of the universe
With a beauty it might never otherwise know.