Embracing Sadness Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Simply circumventing sadness is impossible, it is inherent, never going to leave me alone.
Therefore, I must embrace and write from it.
Taking time to feel and taste it's bittersweet essence.
Finding it watching at every corner, in intervals only shown through rhythm's harmony.
Initiating melodies, hearing tones, giving of myself, reaching into depths of lonely abandonment.
Never trying to destroy it's existence, only cry with it draping heart and mind with my soul, torn and left to die alongside the
person I've become.
Satisfaction not being able to ever take hold, because tears will
be filling me inside.
Lamenting a life of happiness, I continue to strive for equanimity, but there is none for me on earth, never will be.
Knowing this intensely, deep in my heart where I am now writing as delicately as I can so as not to arouse major emotional turmoil in
a doctor's office full of people.