RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Realizing life is temporary and we need to take advantage
of every moment that is given us.

Using each one, emptied of hatred and spite, here to learn
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Reaching out into the world, wanting to learn everything
there is to learn about people, cultures, and other
countries outside of the U.S.A.
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Soundlessly listening into silence of the atmosphere,
hearing my heart beat in time with music I constantly
listen to.
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Desires running rampant, filling my mind with a transparent
curtain, barely keeping me on this side of it.

Wanting and needing all of them to be expressed in this life
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Walking slowly, looking all around, unrecognizable
landscapes passing by in black and white shadows.

Sensing a knowing coming to pass through an intuition
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This world is falling apart and there's nothing we can
do about it, because too many people out there don't
care what happens as long as they receive their benefits
and freebies.
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Falling into depths of emotions that are filling me
with the pain of a lifetime.

Touching my heart with their fragrant sorrow, weeping
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Searching my soul, seeing it's transcendental sphere
connected to the divine.

Solace being taken and attributed to the sequence of
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Totally in the zone, behaving like a child with
musical rhythms cradling my heart.

So gentle and tender, touching tendrils of inner
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Black hole rising over the sun, reflecting the sadness of
this world, bringing it into perspective as earth turns.

Seeing many egos being magnified, not for anything good,
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