I AM WITHOUT POETRY <br /> <br /> <br />I am without poetry <br />Flat dead inside <br />Why? <br /> <br />Too much sickness of friends and relatives <br />Too much failure in my own writing life <br /> <br />I write these lines too <br />Without enthusiasm or hope <br />Or any great sense of meaning <br /> <br />An exercise to keep myself going <br />A small effort in the struggle to stay alive <br /> <br />Without Poetry I write Poetry to stay alive <br />A whole small poem for one line of meaning <br />Towards the end.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-without-poetry/
