Long Distance Runners

We don’t run the way we used to ten kilometers pounding hard through switchback trails to beat the twilight Twenty-odd years ago you wanted marriage kids and a life any life away from your parents but nothing of marriage, held my imagination like Big Apple freaks casually smoking creatively shaping thoughts of a future self And then you went and lived your life - exactly as planned while I stayed and got lost in the idea of it And now when we run I can always see shadows falling away from ourselves moving toward the finish