Renewed Effort Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Sorrowfully looking back over my shoulder, seeing the life I have lived, at times in abject dejection, alone and on my own through ravines of confusion.
Lasting impressions of a younger version, walking haphazardly down lonely lanes of habitual solitary confinement.
Putting out sensors, enticing feelings of others to join with mine. Building a fortress to protect oneself from within, allowing all to participate in a life being slowly torn apart and rebuilt once again with renewed effort.
Lives of being and purpose standing on their own, now walking on pathways they have made for themselves.