Unable To Ignore Reality Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Reality standing in front of us all, not letting us
ignore it even when wanting to, especially in grief.

Hungry for fulfillment of desires, achievement, love,
yet when succumbing to grief's depths we lose every-
thing in our lives, forgetting to live even.

Isolating, wanting no one around, crying, doing nothing
but vegetating, thinking about the one we have loved so
tenderly and fully and now can no longer be with at all.

Sorrow and abandonment is intense, real, it's not able
to be set aside because our minds refuse to allow us.

Only wanting to remember our love and good times together,
the touch of their hands, their hugs, their beautiful
smiling eyes and love given to us.

So totally enticing, made more so now by their deaths,
keeping us locked in a self-made prison, losing will power,
not wanting to escape, just live in sorrow of our deepest
feelings and thoughts.

Nothing can keep us from this prison as we succumb to it's
empty promises, thinking we have a chance, possibly of
being reunited, if only in our minds.