WITHOUT POETRY

Without Poetry
Life can still have meaning
One need not be a poet
To live-

Life has poetry in so many other words
Words of Poetry are not all and all -

Yet with them
How much more meaningful in feeling
Our life can be-

Without a poem
It is possible-

With Poetry
Life is more.

Shalom Freedman

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/without-poetry-2/