EACH POET IS A SOLITARY VOICE SOUNDING HIS ALONE THROUGH THE UNIVERSE <br /> <br />Each poet is a solitary voice sounding his own alone through the universe <br />Each one writes what only he or she can <br />No one is the other and all for anyone else <br />We come into the world alone <br />And we die alone <br />And we are poets – alone <br /> <br />Yet what we dream alone <br />Is nonetheless what no alone can ever give <br />A kind of love and recognition <br />An affirmation of who we are <br />A blessedness <br />That may once have been had in our mother's love <br />But which in our long slow years <br />Can never fully come again. <br /> <br />I loved a woman once <br />And she seemed to love me <br />I knew then <br />There is Eternity. <br /> <br />Now in my old age <br />I also need love <br />A poet is alone <br />And only G-d above.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/each-poet-is-a-solitary-voice-sounding-his-own-alone-through-the-universe/
