RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Walking through this elastic atmosphere, things always
snapping back after being given to us.

Returning and ditching elements that are abundantly
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Tempting us in life are our egos and lust, many give
in to them, thereby ruining other people's lives by
the way they've treated them.
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Sudden and apoplectic turn of events happening all
over the world.

People rising up against governments and politicians,
...

Throughout our lives we find a place to call our own,
a home, business, cardboard box, tent, whatever we can
afford.
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Wanting to be an individual and not follow any others,
not wishing to be coerced into doing something that I
don't believe in.
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There's darkness on the edge of this life, deepening
every day, waiting for death to say when and take me
with him.
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Searching high and low for the treasure chest of your
sacred heart, wanting to feel your love within me again.

Love you gave filled mine with sensations, temptations,
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Beating staccatoly, incessantly, my heart is racing,
trying to find yours again.

Being lonely and lost in rhythms of music, never able
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Laughter echoing in the past, filling this empty house
with whispers of death that have taken you from me for-
ever.
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Waking to the afternoon, having had a twenty minute
nap while sitting at the senior center.

Still feeling tired, wanting to go to sleep, still
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