I WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH

I was not good enough
To realize the Dream
I have given my life to-

God did not give me the gift
I so longed to have-

Now I write these words,
Defeated, disappointed, small-
Yet still irrationally hoping,

I am better than I have been proven to be.

Shalom Freedman

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