If There Is No Poem

IF THERE IS NO POEM/ WHY TRY TO WRITE ONE?

If there is no poem,
Why try to write one?
Why try to force Meaning
Out of nothing?
Why try to pretend to be doing
When one cannot?
Why try to write
When one is not writing?
Why try to be
What one is not?

If there is no poem
Learn to wait
Perhaps it will come-

And if it does not
Live in a universe
Of your own poemlessness
Most people do after all -

Just live
Poemless
In your own inner Silence, Loss, and Longing.

poem by Shalom Freedman
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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