I PRETEND THAT I AM YOUNG AGAIN <br /> <br />I pretend that I am young again <br />And just setting out <br />And that I know I am going to change the world <br />With my words <br />And create a kind of great literature <br />No one has known before- <br /> <br />I pretend I am young again <br />But when I begin to write <br />I hear my old pages within me <br />I slowly tortuously reread <br />The dreams and the failures <br />And I know I am not young again- <br /> <br />I know Beginning is really just holding on <br />And ‘pretending to be young' <br />One small maneuver <br />In a long battle <br />Whose end is certainly determined.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-pretend-that-i-am-young-again/