I Want My Name So Much To Be A Name Poem by Shalom Freedman

I Want My Name So Much To Be A Name



I WANT MY NAME SO MUCH TO BE A NAME

I want my name so much to be a name-
But when I am gone
What will that name mean to me?

Your name too
What will it mean
In the great distances?

Names and more names
Only G-d knows.
God has many names
And no name
And only One Name

Why should I insist so much
On my own name?
When only God can know
All the Names
Even God’s own.

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Shalom Freedman

Shalom Freedman

Troy New York
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