Nature Of Mankind Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Recalling echoes of yesterday's heartache, attempting to reach
beyond it and grasp hold of a semblance of reality's dreams
again.

Traipsing always down earthly pathways of wayward tears,
leaving trails of an eternal inferno of pain and hurt.

Knowing nothing can ever touch my being this intensely, except
that of the loss of someone's life whom I hold to dearly on
this earth.

Collapsing desperately beneath the turmoil, not able to hold
onto anything while going through this horrible and trouble-
some heartache and pain.

Always being taken alone into depths of a canyon that I
prefer to never visit, yet it is where I will always end up
while here on earth, because that is the nature of mankind.