Meeting Interesting People Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Conversing with seniors we've never met before today.
Totally interesting people, one woman who was a
teenager when Stalin was in power and she and her
family were thrown into concentration camps and her
mother beaten.
They were starved, tortured, not able to take showers
after working and toiling all day long.
Ending up with lice and itching like crazy.
Being adopted by a soldier's family just to get out of
the concentration camp to safety.
Later another soldier helped her Mom escape and re-
united them.
On the run together, they finally escaped and made it
to America.
Such an interesting woman, married to a college English
professor.
What a wonderful world of people from every nationality
and corner of the world, brought together here at
Paradise Valley Community Center.
How amazingly our world has become in this tiny little
space in time.
An absolutely amazing woman with a positive attitude,
even after all she's been through in her life.
No longer in Arizona, I pray that her life is filled
with blessings, always.