Shalom Freedman Poems

Time is coming to get me
I pretend it is not
It will always somehow not get here
But it is coming
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I cannot escape who I am
Why should I? I wonder
Just another human being
Is another human being also
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WRITING IS LIVING

I have time today to write
But nothing to say
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There are worlds upon worlds upon worlds
I have not known and will never know
Most of what has been and what is
Is forever outside my thought and feeling
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OH FOR ONE POEM AT LAST

Oh for one poem at last
That would put an end to poetry for me
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I am a man
Who sings his songs to himself
There are times
I would like for others to hear them
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I wrote more than Ican read again
I wrote
And loved the writing
And when the writing was done
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I am an old man
I am an old happy man
And an old sad man
And an old hopeless man
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I LIVE TOO MUCH IN THE PAST

I live too much in the past
In longing I will never realize
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A new day begins
And suddenly light reminds us
There is still love of life in the world
It is not all grief and gloom
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