Shalom Freedman Poems

I have been wrong so many times in my life
That if I could open a business and get paid for being wrong
I would be rich by now-
But Money is what I have been most wrong about,
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SADNESS CALLS ANXIETY ALSO

Sadness calls Anxiety also
The day has not yet really begun
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I SEE SO MUCH BEAUTY

I see so much Beauty
I feel it so deeply
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I WRITE THESE LINES

I write these lines
to prove that I am alive
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EVEN IF I GIVE UP

Even if I give up
All the Dreams of Writing
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Whose green is Beauty each morning
Today swaying violently in the wind
Could be Death-

We see with who we are
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These cold grey winter days
Which come so rarely in Jerusalem
Bring me back
To Troy New York in my childhoo
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Life's adventure has not ended yet
I may be old
But I will not give up-

If I have to begin again
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I WAS WAITING FOR THE DARKNESS TO TELL ME

I was waiting for the Darkness to tell me
Its time to disappear,
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I walked to Shul as fast as I can
In order to run away from myself
Perhaps I would find there something else
Or some other part of myself
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