Shalom Freedman Poems

I wrote a poem a prayer
Toward the end of my life
It asked God to keep alive forever
Everyone I had ever really cared about
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Even in old age
There is a time for happiness
Even in old age
It is possible to still feel pleasure
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TO BE WITHOUT PAIN AGAIN

To be without pain again
Suddenly
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The nights of my loneliness
Are longer than the days of my happiness
But the days of my happiness
Are my real life
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Oh Poetry
How I have loved you
How you have meant so much to me
How I would have written some of your true and beautiful lines-
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All these feelings
These longings these sadnesses
These sudden memories
And perceptions of loss
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The long boredom of the endless afternoon
And the sudden meaninglessness I feel
I try to dispel now
By observing the calm green leaves
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We will never sail the mega-galaxies
We will never pop in and out of new universes
We will not even see the stars
We see now-
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I am so happy sometimes
And so much want to live
And so much regret
That I will have to die
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The joy of life
The love of it
Leaps out at me
This morning and I pen in hand
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