THERE IS A COURAGE OF DEFIANCE
There is a Courage of Defiance
That abhors self- pitying complaint-
I do not have it much
But I admire it –
In my Old Age
I know certain ways in which
I would have been different-
But heroic rage
Is not mine
Even against myself0
Quietly quietly I complain my pain towards the ground-
Shalom Freedman
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