I AM TIRED OF THE WORD ‘POEM’ <br /> <br />I am tired of the word ‘poem’ <br />‘Poem’ ‘poem’ ‘poem’ ‘poem and ‘poem’ again <br />Weren’t there stars before there were poems? <br />And won’t there be light somewhere else <br />when no one has words to say? <br />And in all the great Silence before and ever after <br />won’t there be the being of something real however unsaid and unknown? <br />And won’t ‘Poem’ and ‘poems’ too like all of us <br />Cease one day to be and never again know that they are? <br />All the immortals are mortal and their poems too <br />Silence before and Silence after <br />And no words forevermore.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-tired-of-the-word-poem/
