Shalom Freedman Rejection Poems

The sad pain of rejection
Goes through all our life
In so many ways
In so many things
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Even the people who love me
Tell me I am not good enough-

It is not good in old age
To have faults one should have corrected in childhood-
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Years of rejection have not defeated me
A lifetime of rejection has not defeated me
I continue to strive-
Am I simply a greater fool in old age,
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The words go on
They strive to cover
The deeper silence
Of what has been lost
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