Our Lives Disappear Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Taking turns in life, altering our lives and destinations
according to what we want from it.

Ever changing, finding new interests along the way, wanting
to follow through with them and see what happens then.

Situations and circumstances constantly making us change
our plans to accommodate them temporarily while waiting.

At times we suffer from loss of loved ones and find it too
difficult to start over again.

Flowing with the pain and emptiness left by their deathly
abandonment we no longer seem to exist.

Knowing they also had no choice in the matter for when
death comes knocking we no longer have a say and our lives
disappear behind black curtains and veils of it's eternal
mystery.