Silent Stranger Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Watching people around me, seeing and feeling their emotions
within, as their sadness and loss sometimes seeps into my own
being without them speaking a word to me.

When noticing these feelings, saying prayers for each of them,
hoping God will ease their burdens some through the prayer of
a silent stranger.

A mere poet sitting here writing, just waiting to be brought
back to the operating room for more surgery, praying that God
will stay with me also.