How Do I Live? 1/28/2022

The world
Created for us
Is our playground
Of joys and sorrows.

A place to experience
What is needed
To understand
Who we are
Without
Our masks
And shields on.

The outer shell
Has hardened with time
Suppressing emotions
During difficult experiences
Leaving things unspoken.

Fear takes control
Over our reactions
Feeling lost and confused
Without a plan or direction
To head on.

How do I live
In this state of survival?
How do I live
With uncertainty?
How do I live without you
Within in heart?

Tis many questions
Only you must answer
Lingering in this
State of confusion.

Until you learn
How to journey within
Your heart to unlock
What is needed
To enlighten the soul.

Maggie Spaulding
~Poem Author