Living Without Writing Poem by Shalom Freedman

LIVING WITHOUT WRITING

Living without Writing
Without effort to at last write the true work
Without search for Recognition
Without search for Greatness
Without search for Literary Immortality
Without purpose
Without goal
Just living
For whatever life gives
Caring for the family
The children and grandchildren
Making a little money
Enjoying the small everyday pleasures
Life gives to most of us
Just living
Without the purpose I have lived with all the years
A new Meaninglessness
A life
Just a life and a death
Just a life
Nothing more