The Circle’s Existence: Understanding Karma by Andrea Laws (Kansas, 37)

what’s lost will be lost in one heart but an
unblocked gateway in another

worry nothing over adrenaline, the
cause was greater than you

experience the lesson and growth and
never reduce the memory of time shared

possession is no longer heard in the
outcome that rests in another’s hands

you’ve gained a future without and
vision of life without
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realize and remember that
your turn will soon be discovered

Andrea Laws is currently 37-years-old and resides in Lawrence, KS, working in the field of scholarly publishing for the University Press of Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas, with a B.A. in English, with a focus on creative writing, and a B.A. in Film Studies, with a focus on film theory and criticism. Her poetry has been published in three compiled books of poetry, and featured on twelve literary websites, journals, and blogs. Her influences have been from the masters of Gothic literature, but she would like to think that she has a modern voice to this genre, with her incorporation of current themes with an “old school” format. Andrea wants her readers to have a sense of longing and desire to seek the unknown and always want more by understanding what her words mean to them. She is a nature-loving, dark enduring, Kansas girl that seeks to break barriers of stereotypes.