All The Feelings At The Edge Poem by Shalom Freedman

ALL THE FEELINGS AT THE EDGE

All the feelings at the edge
All the perceptions and longings
All the life in us beyond our consciousness
So much longing so much life
Passing in us all the time
As if what we once had and can never have again
Or long for now and cannot even truly perceive
Is the heart of what we are-
Creatures of longing and disquiet
Of the hidden and distant perceptions
Of the life within us and beyond us
Of oh so much beauty and sadness
We will never even know we lost
When our minds are taken with us
To where no one any longer can or have-Sense