Paths We Used To Share Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Resistance to life's pathways, now that I live alone
in a cocoon, isolating and finding nothing to live
for without you now gone.

Walking paths that we used to share, holding hands,
talking quietly, expressing our thoughts, opinions
and love for one another.

Stepping into each moment and cherishing every
second we spent together, knowing there was nothing
we couldn't accomplish when we wanted to.

Now suddenly it's just me without you by my side,
bursting into a flood of tears, drowning my mind
with memories of us.

There's no more laughter, no joy, no desires being
met or rising anymore, where are the possibilities
we had discovered together? Where have they gone now?

Eyes still glistening with tear drops, looking down
into the depths of my being, finding nothing but
emptiness, having nothing to say.

No one to listen, even if speaking, a total eclipse
of this life, now haunting me with your disappearance
every moment I'm alive.

Who would've ever thought that this would come about
all those years ago when younger and in love, our
world opened before us to conquer the earth.

Now there's not a thing I wish to do, nothing more to
interest my being, an aloneness of spirit is the only
invigorating aspect left in this life of mine.