RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

All of life revolves around children, taking care of and
protecting them.

Why then do our courts keep giving abusive mothers children
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Bright sunlight shining into my mind, illuminating it for a
moment in time.

Clearing up doubts and worries, placing them in a jar upon
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Life slides down a rainbow and into the ocean, falling onto
it's floor beneath tides of life.

Taking together, beauty of this forest, an almost perfect
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Anger building up inside, putting pressure on my mind, going
ahead, ignoring it's pain, looking out at life, it's glory
hidden, seeking inside, answers to it's plight.
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Why must I always be alone, why can't I have anyone here on
earth, I'm only human?

Loneliness, emptiness, I feel each day is excruciating, why
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Habitually happening, taking comfort in the knowledge that
life is happening inside where enlightenment may follow in
close pursuit.
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Throughout the evening hours, walking around city streets
alone.

Watching shadows peer around buildings and into alleyways,
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Life is so solitary even among many people, finding only a
solo journey progressing down lanes of old, feeling the
sorrowful aspects of life, walking by them one by one.
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Jostling memories, catching them in a web of fascination and
destiny, so totally incensed with the interior rhythms of life.

Taking self into the foray of another time, instilling the
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Forgiving attitudes fill the air with their pity,
sending apologies into depths of unending prayer.
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