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To discover that what you thought existed,

Doesn't

That what you struggled to achieved,

Isn't

To find another way of dealing with reality

After so long avoiding responsibility

For truth is often just out of reach,

And therefore the individual must teach

Himself to act

In concert with the fact

That when you're UP

Your optimism distorts the view;

And when you're DOWN

Your pessimism can undo

All that you've achieved.

And so, a middle ground must be found

Here peace of mind holds priority

Over all your schemes and dreams,

And complexes of inferiority.

  

2

If life is what you make of it

And pleasure is all you take from it

Then who am I

To just stand by

I'll make you question just for the sake of it

For Kafka to evolve it

For Freud to try to solve it

Although the search for reason

Continues from season to season

Time will forever dissolve it

It's easy to forget it

And never to regret it

But I won't let

This simple mind set

Allow you to plead "I don't get it"

  


All of the above poems are © Copyright Harry Kel 2002. They may not be copied or reproduced in part or in total without prior permission of the author.


Harry Finkelstein (aka Harry Kel) was born in Wolfratshausen, Germany on May 02 1947. He and his immediate family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1948. He married Carol Schnarch in 1967. He and his wife and children moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1987. He was in the Knitting business, Premium business, Retailing, Wholesale Sportswear and recently retired because of a battle with MS. He experienced bipolar disorder for most of his adult life. He finished writing his poetry book ("IT" subtitled "The Holocaust and Depression") in 1999.

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