We Are Not Fourteen Billion Years Old Poem by Shalom Freedman

We Are Not Fourteen Billion Years Old

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WE ARE NOT FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS OLD

We are not fourteen billion years old
We are not even two-hundred thousand
Not even ten- thousand
Not even five
We are more than three- thousand perhaps
A blink or less of cosmic time

Our land and our city
Do not hold nine- tenths of the beauty of the world
There are many more spectacularly beautiful places
Though our holy city has a beauty of its own
And not for us alone also

We are not the greatest share of those
Who have gifted humanity
With great works of creation
However disproportionately great our creation is
Including some humanity might have done better without

We do not own God and God does not love us alone
But we more than any other people
Gave God to the world
And we have our own special history and relation with God

We are not today the most suffering people
Although we have suffered much in history
And are still most threatened

There have been others who have known exile and rebirth
But no one after the desolation and devastation
We have

We are not the only miracle in the world
But we are a miracle and still here

Let us pray we can continue
And give to humanity as God has demanded of us
Blessing Goodness Kindness Hope
A better life and better world.

Saturday, May 3, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: religion
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Terry Craddock 11 January 2017

we are but the measure of the span of our own lives, it is good to wear a smile upon the face, to wear love within our hearts, as we walk the byways highways of life 'Blessing Goodness Kindness Hope A better life and better world.' so easy to dream so hard to achieve when hard hearts refuse to melt in love

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Terry Craddock 22 September 2020

Dream Happiness Ever After so easy to dream so hard to achieve when hard hearts refuse to melt in love dream happiness ever after is written in kind hearts who sow in receptive fields Inspired by the poem 'We Are Not Fourteen Billion Years Old' by the poet Shalom Freedman. Dedicated to the poet Shalom Freedman.

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Terry Craddock 22 September 2020

I wrote the poem 'War Unknown In Suffering Struggles' inspired by the poem 'WE ARE DEFENDED BY THOSE WE DO NOT KNOW THE NAMES OF' by the poet Shalom Freedman and dedicated to the poet Shalom Freedman.

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Terry Craddock 22 September 2020

Remember Fallen Heroes Few a few a chosen few publicity fostered in sight public eye name endure for years remember fallen heroes few stood among many shielded on the shoulders of many dead wounded injured unknown join the few in long family memories... Inspired by the poem 'WE ARE DEFENDED BY THOSE WE DO NOT KNOW THE NAMES OF' by the poet Shalom Freedman. Dedicated to the poet Shalom Freedman.

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Terry Craddock 22 September 2020

I wrote the poem 'Spin Webs Of Love Beautiful Increasing Circles' inspired by the poem 'WE ARE DEFENDED BY THOSE WE DO NOT KNOW THE NAMES OF' by the poet Shalom Freedman and dedicated to the poet Shalom Freedman.

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Terry Craddock 22 September 2020

Linked With Webs Of Love the commonality of our lives should be linked with webs of love love family friends strangers Inspired by the poem 'WE ARE DEFENDED BY THOSE WE DO NOT KNOW THE NAMES OF' by the poet Shalom Freedman. Dedicated to the poet Shalom Freedman.

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Terry Craddock 22 September 2020

Smiles Should Measure The Span Of Our Own Lives we are but the living measure smiles in the span of our own lives it is good to wear a smile upon the face to wear love within our honest hearts as we walk the byways highways of life Inspired by the poem 'We Are Not Fourteen Billion Years Old' by the poet Shalom Freedman. Dedicated to the poet Shalom Freedman.

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