My Poem Tonight Poem by Shalom Freedman

MY POEM TONIGHT

My poem tonight
In the quiet of nothing happening
Is simply a blessing
For life itself
Life with all its beauty
And greatness and sorrow
Life with all its endless complications
Life which does not know today
What it will be tomorrow
Life and more life
For as long as we can
With hope that to the end
We will have our minds
And not die before we die-

As to my sorrow
my old good friend Y.
who I was with today
and was incapable of speaking with me
has perhaps already done.