Shalom Freedman Poems

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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THE LONG DAY OF ANXIETY

The long day of anxiety
Moves toward a quieter evening
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In my old age
I suddenly grow confident
I have lived through so much uncertainty
Seen so much injustice and suffering
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I WORRY

Even though I live in happiness most of the time
I worry
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I LOVED THE WORLD OF LITERATURE

I loved the world of Literature
And longed to belong to it
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I live in an endless contradiction in feelings and moods
Within myself at once there are many up and down worlds
I try to be true to a certain courage in going on
But discouragement is often the predominant tone
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Being rejected for one's own creative efforts
Should not mean total hopelessness
There are other aspects of life
Family
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AN ANSWER COMES

An answer comes
A friend helps-
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