Pools Of Sadness Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Love and laughter have fallen silently within.
Tears of joy have joined and mingled with pools
of sadness.

Through pain filled eyes, only pain can be seen
and held.

Losing the battle in tiny increments every day,
life slips farther away and is difficult to hold
on to.

Despair filling up every particle, left alone to
die, life is pasted onto pages, holding no meaning.

When a friend was there at least the pages could
be turned and learning taught, reaching a tiny
shred of hope that had almost been put out.

Where is that friend now? Lying himself, in a
state of sadness, depression filling him without.

It seems that love and laughter are also silent
in him, killed by cancer's whim.