The First Morning After Yom Kippur 5774 Poem by Shalom Freedman

The First Morning After Yom Kippur 5774



THE FIRST MORNING AFTER YOM KIPPUR

The first morning after Yom Kippur
Wants a poem-
Holiness is called for
And yet I cannot sing it,
As we sung it through the longest day of prayer-

My mind is dry as Kohelet
Ahead to Sukkot-

Kohelet is not always right,
But about the main vanity of vanities
He is never wrong-

We have prayed for life
And in our joy after the fasting done
We feel more alive-

And yet waiting in the year ahead
All the questions and the doubts return-

In old age all fades and fails
But there may be for me time and purpose still
To try and contend with it -

May God in this year
Give us life and blessing
And not yet let the evil days come -

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Shalom Freedman

Shalom Freedman

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