Being Mindful Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Those of you who have lost loved ones, searching for
answers, still need to be mindful of others in your
lives.

Don't profess to love another, knowing in your heart
that you can never love them, for you've spent all
your love and have none left to give to another.

It isn't done purposely I believe, because you're lost
and lonely, just wanting to have some love from another
to keep you grounded.

Yet, it's done just the same and injures the other
person by taking away their personhood, a tragic and
decimating feeling now within their beings.

Thinking they're not worthy of love from others, it's
a two-edged sword, yet it only hurts the one caught
in it's deadly snare.