Shalom Freedman Poems

LONELINESS IS A SLOW POEM

Loneliness is a slow poem
And I am a slow person
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WHEN THE POEM CAME


When the Poem came
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Nothing Great is needed-
No remarkable affirmation or proof of what we are-
Only those moments in which Pleasure and Happiness are real-

From little life itself
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And changed the world into Loneliness
And would not go away
But stayed and stayed and stayed
Until even the morning light
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There is a poem that was never written down
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And feel there is no Hope for ever changing anything
When you are depressed about being old
And feel you can never begin anything new again
When you are depressed about being old
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The Poetry in me
Whole poems are few
Broken lines are many
Poetic phrases jumble through everywhere
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I do not know when it will be-
Probably after the true death-

Ten years a hundred years a thousand years
A million years a billion years from now
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No one misinterprets you
And accuses you of being all kinds of things
That you are not-
You are not disturbed by strangers-
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And Youth is no more
And she who made our dreams sing
Can no longer utter a single sound-
How lost and far away
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