Limits Poem by Max Reif
Limits
In my 30's I wrote a book of poems
all about infinite possibility.
A friend's dad, a doctor,
read them and said:
'You feel now
like you have boundless energy,
you think you can do anything,
but all that will change someday.'
I thought, how sad—
the man is so defeated.
Today I came home
from 8 hours of work
and I just don't have
the zest to read or write.
I can't do everything,
I'm realizing.
Infinite possibility
and finite energy
=(sigh)
limits.
To do the infinite
will take a little longer
than I'd thought.
To do the infinite We need more courage More love, more loneliness More fire, more spirit And much more divinity. nice poem Max
Nice poem, Max. I think its finding infinite in finite. And when we do that that finite will become infinite.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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I guess the important thing is to do all we can do to reach the infinite even if we know that we never will. Great poem! HBH