Traversing Lonely Pathways Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Always taking steps in so-called right directions,
striving to live and become the stranger I am not.

Rearranging self to fit patterns of society's way
of thinking, yet not being able to follow through
because it isn't who I am.

Traversing lonely pathways off the beaten roads,
to find ways of my own making, creating the life
I hold within.

Never following rules, singly choosing to find my
own rights, allowing nothing to stand in the way
of writing when and where I choose.

If others do not like it, they don't have to be
around me.

Forgiving those who cannot be friends, because
of this insatiable desire to write, I continue
life alone, along the highway to it's end.