Folding Inside Self Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Staying aloof and alone, others wondering why, no reason
other than wanting to be alone with music and poetry,
two things that give me time to contemplate and be at
peace within.

Outside sources tend to rile up emotions causing a
tremendous amount of stress, so just folding inside
self brings a freedom that my soul needs to the nth
degree.

Never quitting, only being myself in chambers of an
internal loneliness that have been created through the
years.

Only livelihood stays inside, never abandoning me,
going there just to find self and capture feelings to
place in poetry.

Knowing someone, somewhere, has felt the same way at one
time or another, this thought soothing my being, knowing
that I am not the only one who feels this way.