Enhancing Our Experience Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Reminders of your love are strewn everywhere I look,
flowers that you used to love remind me of the time
you picked a bouquet and placed it on the table to
enhance our experience during a candlelight dinner.

Special and simple pleasures were your specialty,
you always were so thoughtful and caring, thinking
of others instead of wallowing in self-pity, even
through difficult times.

Knowing that pity did nothing to help, only made
you feel ill and taking away from the happiness
needed to survive the battle with cancer you were
constantly fighting.

Taking care of you in the end, forsaking everything
just to be with you, giving, loving, fulfilling
marriage vows and every need that you had whenever
possible.

Such a tremendous amount of respect coming from
my heart, careful not to hurt or cause you any harm
or pain at all, feeding, massaging, taking care of
you with every ounce of love within my heart.

When you were taken, life was over, thoughts of
abandonment, isolating in the aftermath of your
death, now needing love to take care of my being,
but you were gone.

Not yet realizing that you have sent an angel to
fill this heart with love, needing to care for and
love me through the rest of my lonely earthly life.