RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Teaching involves taking steps to encourage others too shy to try on their own.
Learning to remember that no one is more important than you and how you think.
Learn to shut off the stream of negativity swimming around in your head, abandonly.
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Swallowing pride, moving along, finding major portions of reality as they get caught up in our craws,
pecking at us when we're in solemn delusion about ourselves.
Taken together we escape and leave earth for another plain, unseen.
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Granules of life are thrown about, never collecting themselves for important moments along life's trails.
Forgotten feelings take us all on journeys away from our purposes, neglecting needs of another human being coming close to our situations in life.
Talking heart-to-heart - missed - because another makes a choice to despise and hate you for no known reason.
Leaving you in a mire - not one of your own making - and stranding you in a lonely pit of emptiness for the rest of your life.
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Beguiling eyes, tempting friendliness to ensue, yet holding back,
not trusting anymore the person she was before.
Walking alongside, wanting to let go, but deathly afraid to,
because I've been hurt to the very core of my being.
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