The Sad Pain Of Rejection Poem by Shalom Freedman

The sad pain of rejection
Goes through all our life
In so many ways
In so many things
We learn that we are not wanted
Or are not good enough
We learn that we are not loved
By one we loved so much
We learn the work we have given our lives too
Is just not that good
The sad pain of rejection
Is even in small unintended words
In implications of things
Only we can hear
We so much want to be needed and loved and understood and recognized
And so often in so many ways
We receive instead
The sad pain of rejection.