Penetrating An Outer Crust Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Carrying on throughout life, trying to always do the
right and proper things.

Being human, failing at times, striving to get along
with everyone, finding it fairly easy to do.

Loving the hard-nosed people the best, eventually
penetrating their outer crust, finding the beautiful
person that they are.

Knowing that their outer demeanor and meanness are
just covering up a very sensitive and hurt person in
life.

Heart going out to them more so than others, feeling
a close kinship to them, maybe because they are so
much like myself within.

Only difference between us is that I don't let things
make me mean, stubborn at times, yes, but never mean.

Never being able to bring myself to hurt another un-
necessarily,