Emotional Enigma By Helga Gruendler-Schierloh

Emotional Enigma


Stars brightening the horizon,
not to touch, merely to see,
diamonds of an ethereal kind
to be admired with reverie.

Songs inviting to a sing-along,
not to perform, only to hear,
a gentle sound opening hearts
to release a lingering fear.

Life tossing about challenges,
not to ward off, but to face,
guideposts marking the path
toward one’s destined place.

Helga Gruendler-Schierloh is a bilingual writer with a degree in journalism and graduate credits in linguistics. Her articles, essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in the USA, the UK, Canada, and South Africa. The author’s debut novel, Burying Leo, a Me Too story released in 2017, won second place in women’s fiction during Pen Craft Awards’ 2018 writing contest.