I wanted to write the one poem everyone would remember <br />Though I knew it had already been written many times by others- <br />I wanted to write the one poem <br />Which long after I was dead <br />Would say to me when I could not hear <br />‘You will live forever as Literature’ <br /> <br />I knew I probably would not write that poem - <br />This is certainly not it - <br />I knew ‘Trying’ too is not enough <br />And yet <br /> <br />Here I am with my desires and my life <br />And as my father said the world is going by <br />And who am I to ever hope <br />To catch up with it?<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-wanted-to-write-the-one-poem-everyone-would-remember/
