Seeing Through Loss Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Trailing fingers through memories, reliving them graciously
and gratefully, wanting nothing more than to live them over
again and again.

Being an impossibility, settled instead to watch photographic
videos from interior memories, seeing them over and over, at
times tears overflowing from this heart.

Images of loved ones being seen again through their loss and
giving those feelings of love that will never again be experi-
enced through the reality of life.

Suffering with the pain throughout the years, these yellowed
and aging memories acting like a healing balm while reliving
and crying through them over and over again silently.