Bringing Life Forward Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Beating melodies into the night, leading us across
boundaries and limitations set by controlling people
not wanting anyone to get ahead of them in life.

Strolling down pathways of yesterday, wanting to cap-
ture whatever we had, not wanting to give up anything
in life, just bringing it forward little by little.

Suggestions never being listened to, disappearing in
moments that have been erased, leaving not a trace of
who has been here.

Waiting and being lost like old treasures of the past
that are no longer able to be passed on, only being
dreamt of in nights of sleep.