Beginning Of Understanding Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Music paints my heart with beauty, sates it's desire
with quiet, gentle peace.

Life is kept at a safe distance right inside of us,
to live it is not foreign, because it's always within.

Touching and listening with hearts of joy and burden,
learning to live with one another through ourselves.

If we cannot be there for self, how can we possible
help another?

Knowing what we are like within is the beginning of
understanding with our fellow man.