Freddy Zalta

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  • Swirls of Fire

    Children are lost, confused and asking questions. Running in circles, grasping at the wind and trying to capture the sun light. Men huddled speaking softly, what went wrong on that night? Swirls of fire – smoke undetected but did it have to end this way?

  • Eternal

    The pain from the nightmares that were not nightmares, but reality, will go on forever. The questions, the crazy answers and rationalizations, cited verse and cited commentaries will not help to quell the confusion, to ease the pollution of anger, sadness and solitude. Still, the night began…lost in a never-ending darkness…feeling as if the sun…

  • At the End of the Day Chapter 6

    “Do you want soy milk, whole milk, 1%, 2%, organic, lactose free-” “You are funny. I’ll take the 2%.” “Good choice!” “I am glad you approve.” She said with a smile. His stomach was feeling the excitement of a new event, a major happening…something had moved and the world was now out of whack somehow.…

  • A Story to Tell chapter 5

    She wasn’t as passionate as David was and was able to go through life without the perks and spoils her contemporaries took for granted. What she could not handle was the cold sadness that emanated from him. Once when he used to come home the house would light up and she would run to see…

  • A Story to Tell Chapter 4

    “Stop romanticizing everything in your past and see events and people for what and who they were. Then you can learn from them.” Dr. Green, my former psychologist. “I prefer to stay stupid and romanticize and glorify the events I have been through and the people I have known.” “Why? What benefit do you derive…

  • A Story to Tell Chapter 3

    I walked away from the burial ground after we said the mourners prayer and found myself walking into the rented limousine that would take us back to my parents house to begin our week of sitting Shiva. Memories flooded my mind but kept being interrupted by the need to console and others consoling me. I…

  • A Story to Tell Chapter 2

    I dream I am in the middle of a large arena – in a boxing ring and I am being introduced. There is a lot of screaming and I cannot even hear what the announcer is saying. I am told to shake hands with the fighter across from me – I look at him and…

  • Face the Truth – Not the Media’s Lies

    Questioning your vision of reality is scary – but its a fear that must be addressed. Its safe and comforting to believe that war is bad and that all people should be treated with the same liberties as written in the laws and the constitutions. They believe that no one should be tortured, imprisoned or…

  • Don’t be Afraid (poem for a friend)

    Every ending can be looked at through the eyes of wonder or the eyes of fear. Not to sound like the memes and the positive sayings we always see posted around the social sites – seemingly by desperate people searching for some affirmation that shit happens for a reason. But I truly am a witness…

  • Time Travel Through Memories: Recalling the Joys of Youth

    Time is the caretaker of life; it mops, cleans, and takes away the waste, the spoiled, and the old. Sometimes, too often, it discards the fresh, the young, and the unfulfilled. You can complain all you want—it’s a one-sided argument. So we move on, time discarding some of the pain but never enough to keep…