Affecting Life Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Thinking of other times in life when destiny didn't matter
so much in everyday life.

Now as a senior, waiting to see how I have affected it by
what I have done in life this far.

Looking outside, feeling tension developing hesitantly
within, hoping that I have not veered too far off the path
that was laid out for me at birth.

Being a long way from a final shore, yet here I am, standing
upon it now, deeply in thought.