What Is It To Be 'stuck' In Life? Poem by Shalom Freedman

WHAT IS IT TO BE 'STUCK’ IN LIFE?

What is it to be ‘stuck’ in life?
To be unable to get out of the prison one is in?
To see no way out except the way one has tried and failed with many times before?
No light.

What is it to be unable to move?
To feel lost
To believe no change possible?
What is it to despair in life?

What is to be stuck in life all one’s life
And repeat again and again
The same mistakes?

Here I am forty- five years later
Trying to write a dream true
And unable to.