Is There Time For A Poem?

Is there time for a poem
In a world of other sounds?
Is there time for a poem
When songs cannot be heard?
Is there time for a poem
In a time when fear is everywhere?
Is there time for a poem
When no one knows the way to help?
Is there time for a poem
In the darkest time, in the time of no way out?

Is there time for a poem
Any time a person alone
Cannot dare to breathe their own Name
Against the silence of the night?

2.
Is there time for a poem now
When all is so light and bright
There is nothing not even evil to fear
And all the world is singing and saying words of beauty?

poem by Shalom Freedman
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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