Living With Shadows Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Experiencing the beauty of life through events and
situations that I've been through.

Knowing that grief and sorrow played their parts
the same as happiness and joy, maybe even more
intensely as I achieved an appreciation of the
things that came to me along the way.

Spending tears gave me wisdom beyond years, and
took me into the splendor of other dimensions where
only the spirit of this inner being knew what it
was that was being accomplished.

A totality of being, becoming whole and living with
all shadows of sadness, grief and lonely abandon-
ment that kept me based in faith and hope through-
out life.

No doubts along the way to sway me from what it was
that needed to be done.