RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Facing loneliness in a moonlit night, stars twinkling
above, showing their caring and compassion for our
predicaments.
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Wings of a bird slowly coming into view, alighting on
a window above where I sit.

Watching it primp and preen, not noticing the world
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There's nothing left to say, life has ended for you
and I have nothing left but the memories you have
given me through the years.
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Stretching imagination into the light of an interior
darkness where there is nothing more to say.

Shadows everywhere, none saying a word, yet whispers
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Thinking about all our private and intimate conversations
that we've had in our lives here on earth together.

Now they are treasured memories and nothing more can be
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Circles of life have been wrung out by death's embrace
and now there's nothing left to do but fall into it's
circumference, missing you.
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Tempting and enticing, the sight of you walking in-
to a room.

Charisma, good looking, smiling, positive attitude,
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Yesterdays are gone, I keep trying to reach for
them, but they are a dream of the past.

No longer able to be enlightened in the present,
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Memories pounding against my mind incessantly,
giving me no reprieve from the past.

There you were always with me, I never was lost
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When someone you love dies, life ends it's existence,
nothing has meaning anymore.

My smile doesn't come from my heart nowadays, it is
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