Shalom Freedman Poems

Of incredible size
and every single one
will eventually die
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SPRING HAS COME AGAIN

Spring has come again
The pleasant warmth
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Of some long never- thought- of
And wholly insignificant reality
Comes suddenly back
And with it
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IN ORDER TO SURVIVE

In order to survive
We must become something else
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SILENCE IS A DIFFICULT ANSWER


Silence is a difficult answer
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I PRETEND TO BE OUTSIDE AND ABOVE IT

I pretend to be outside and above it
Stuck in a place
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Only a momentary place,
We must save ourselves
In an alternate Space-
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I LOOKED UP AT THE STARS AND THOUGHT

I looked up at the stars
And thought,
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THE SAD TALE

The Sad Tale
Of our forever
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IF THE UNIVERSE IS A CONTINGENCY

If the Universe is a contingency
That does not know its here
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