Living In Poetry Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Climbing trees in my mind,
feeling the euphoria of childhood once again.
Letting myself go, holding onto a freedom,
growing expectantly inside, not letting anyone
interfere with it.

Grasping onto feelings, riding them off into
sunsets where I can be alone on horseback,
reveling in the spacious independence that has
suddenly come over me.

An unexpected peacefulness has enamored my heart
and brought me into an environment of a lonely
existence where there is actually no being alone
with all of nature at my beck and call.

Existing, solitarily on edges of being, living
with everything held in poetry, written through-
out life, continuing into future destiny without
any qualms about who I actually am.