There Are Books/I Return To Again And Again Poem by Shalom Freedman

There Are Books/I Return To Again And Again



THERE ARE BOOKS / I RETURN TO AGAIN AND AGAIN

There are books
I return to again and again
They are with me
Still in old age-

Yet one day
All my knowledge and memory of them
Will disappear
And a lifetime of
Learning and rereading them
A lifetime of loving them
Will be nothing forever.

'Vanity of vanities' says the Preacher
and he is right
even in this.

Thursday, August 4, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: loss
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Shalom Freedman

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