RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Impatient heart stop your senseless beating,
become a part of the universe as yet unknown.

Live beyond your potential now, and soon, too
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Breaking through the barrier of life, sidestepping it's
meager existence, hoping to find meaning in other realms,
leaving behind family and friends, seeking new alterna-
tives, trying to begin again.
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Dancing in the wind, fine tuning strings of my heart with
fragrant beauty, touching my soul with the life of a rose.

Reaching into depths of unseen, unlearned knowledge, find-
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Tears of dark emptiness fall slowly from my eyes,
each drop bringing with it a piece of my heart.

Soaked through with sorrow, head hung limply from
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Always internal messages being played, alternat-
ing feelings between guilt and shame,

Idly listening, unconsciously letting them run,
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Deep down inside where only I can hide, lies the meaning
of my life, figuring out many facets, going through years
of experience, I try to find me out.
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Life is beginning over again, steps are being retraced,
changes are trying to be made known.

Saturated with beliefs, horrors, abuse, all of living
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Hemmed in by many thoughts and feelings of the past,
each day lasts forever in my mind.

Wanting to erase or get rid of all the memories, I
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Rage is bubbling hotly inside, scratching, tearing, clawing
it's way through tender flesh, ripping, pulling insides a-
part, throwing the pieces everywhere.
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Awareness falls short of insensitivity, barricading life-
long ambitions behind bars of steel.

Denigrating proclivity for absent prototypes, strung out
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