There Is No Time For A Poem Now Poem by Shalom Freedman

THERE IS NO TIME FOR A POEM NOW

There is no time for a poem now
And no hope a poem will save me-

I must find another way
A way not of poems and poetry
But what can that way be?

I do not think I will find another way
With poems or without them-

I have only this way
It has not it does not it will not save me-

But it is what I have
And what I am-

There is no way
I try to write another poem
But it is not the way-

I do not have
I will never have the way
Perhaps I will still have some small poetry
Perhaps.