RoseAnn V. Shawiak - Falling Life

Life's members falling aside, as the rest of life goes on.

Yellowed with age, crippled by disease, alone and feeling
abandoned now that the children have grown and moved away.

Loneliness echoes across halls of yesterday, maintaining
the good times once had.

Now like water flowing downstream, gently, hurriedly,
taking everything with it, as our lives bob up and down
frantically, trying to hold on.

Peaceful nature of life surrounding the entire universe
will one day wrap and envelope each of us as we float
through death's embrace.

RoseAnn V. Shawiak

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