Roseann V Shawiak

I lost you a moment ago, when silence filled the room

Off to another experience beyond my sight and scope –I can only imagine it.A stillness overtakes me as I realize I’m no longerseeing you, only a remnant of you lying in bed in frontof me.Tears flow heavily, they can’t be stopped, they won’tgo away.Life has changed forever, there are only reminders leftsilently behind, of your…

Forgotten outcasts stranded in lands of contempt.

yet not able to take the important first stepfor whatever reasons they hold true in their minds.Lifeless, ever aging in sincere doubts of themselves,foraging alley’s back roads not knowing or realizingthey can stray to paths of their own choosing.Somewhere along the way everyone must decide wherethey are going and make choices their inner self isexploring.Right…

Looking back into beyond, before the war began, hoping and praying that Saddam would have some particle of human decency and not let it happen or begin.

Trying to not let hope be defeated with negative thoughts or words, silent or spoken out loud.Looking towards the eastern horizon, sitting and waiting for messages of unity and peace.None came as the deadline became the beginning of war with Iraq.

Many major arteries in life’s circles are clogged as they reach endlessly for the sky – silently, furtively, closing avenues of perspective reliance.

Taking away livelihoods of people with scant concern for their futurewell-being.Choking lifeblood of many beings, sacrificing none of their own for worldly obligations and duties, burying carcasses of would-be caring, human individuals.Starving many to feed their own egos, creating a make-believe sense of security.Fabricating life as they wish, breaking spirits, hopes and dreams for future…