Shalom Freedman Poems

However much I run
However much I write
I am a smaller and smaller part of all there is-
Everything is expanding at an accelerating rate
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DREAMING OF TIMES THAT WILL NEVER BE AGAIN

Dreaming of times that will never be again
Of worlds as they once were
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DESPAIR IS NOT WHERE IT WAS

Despair is not where it was
I am going somewhere else-
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I DON'T HAVE A POEM IN ME

I don't have a poem in me-
The almond tree is poem enough-
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Will God ever reveal it all to us?

What does it all mean?
And what will I be
Not only at the end of this poem
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EVEN THE LOW GREY CEILING

Even the low grey ceiling
Cannot completely daunt the light
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How will I survive?
If I cannot re-enter cyberspace
Am I alive?
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I will die anyway
Oblivion has a long time
It can wait for someone forever-
It will eventually encompass all-
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They have been filmed at earlier times of their lives
There are records of how they looked and spoke
Which are digitalized for the foreseeable future-
My life has gone unrecorded
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CONTEMPORARIES

When Dylan was rising with his miraculous caw
And Streisand in the early glorious beauty of her voice
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