Shalom Freedman Poems

Not as separate from life
But because it showed me Life
As I had never dreamed it to be
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There is nothing in me
And I write down
My own nothing
And it becomes small lines
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WORDS DIE TOO

Words die too
All my words will die
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I CANNOT AT WILL SUMMON THE TONE OF BEAUTY

I cannot at will summon the tone of Beauty
I cannot at will make my words a dream
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DAYS WHEN THE DARKNESS IS GREATER THAN THE LIGHT

Days when the darkness is greater than the light
Dark days
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EVEN PARADISE WILL BE FORGOTTEN

Even Paradise will be forgotten
And those times of our life
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OLD AGE HAS A POETRY OF ITS OWN


Old Age has a Poetry of its own
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I AM TOO OLD NOT TO BE HUMBLE

I am too old not to be humble
I have failed and been rejected
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WE LIVE AND EXPERIENCE

We live and experience
And in that experiencing
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OLD AGE IS THE LOSING OF INTEREST IN EVERYTHING

Old age is the losing of interest in everything
It is the dying of caring
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