Who Can Bear In Old Age The Despair Of Friends Sick And Lost? Poem by Shalom Freedman

Who Can Bear In Old Age The Despair Of Friends Sick And Lost?



Who can bear in old age the despair of friends sick and lost?
The endless incapacities and infirmities
That deprive us of each other as we wholly are?
Who can bear in old age the diminishing of worlds we knew
And the loss of hopes we lifetime long carried?
Who can bear in old age all these maladies of our own petty meaninglessness?

Only those who can see in the young
Something of themselves or of their own -
Only those who can find in the new generations
Dream and hope for what is yet to come-
Oh old old souls
Speak of your children and grandchildren shamelessly,
They are the light of the world.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ace Of Black Hearts 04 July 2011

Indeed who can bare, but instead we endure as we always will.

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Shalom Freedman

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