I Cannot Escape Poem by Shalom Freedman

I Cannot Escape



I CANNOT ESCAPE

I cannot escape
I make the same efforts
Over and over
I hope blindly
The next time will be different-
It is not
I do what I do
And I do it again and again-

I need a new way
A way out-

I have no idea whatsoever how to find it-

The sages are right
One cannot escape the prison by oneself-

I do not know what to do-

Writing this poem is too
Once again doing the same thing
That did not work previously-

How will I get out?

With the years
With the repeated discouragements
Closer to the end
More and more I fear
This is it
I will never get out-

And when the day of reckoning comes
It will be far worse
More pain and humiliation=
In the last years
Even a worse prison
Than I have known until now.

Saturday, May 24, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: Life
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Shalom Freedman

Shalom Freedman

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