Shalom Freedman Poems

I will die anyway
Oblivion has a long time
It can wait for someone forever-
It will eventually encompass all-
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They have been filmed at earlier times of their lives
There are records of how they looked and spoke
Which are digitalized for the foreseeable future-
My life has gone unrecorded
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CONTEMPORARIES

When Dylan was rising with his miraculous caw
And Streisand in the early glorious beauty of her voice
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ASHAMED

Ashamed
To be at my age
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To return to and calm myself
To be myself-

I need to write a few lines now
So a sense of ‘total uselessness'
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DAYS GO BY

Days go by
Poems go by
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And stop this writing and this trying
If I could only give up at last
If I could only resign myself to doing nothing
And to accepting that I will never realize my dream
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Only so far-
Then you become a fake

No, the true poems are of the lonely soul
Out there alone, and unheard
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Curiosity essential to survival-
No longer on the savannah
I walk after davvening down the quiet morning street
Of the holy city
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I AM GOING TO OBLIVION

I am going to Oblivion
It's a quite quiet place to be
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