Run

I'm running faster and faster To where I don't know Fearing more what I leave behind Than the scary place of the unknown That I now run towards My face sore as the bruises come to life My eyes red from crying terrified tears I have nothing more than the clothes that I wear But never going back is all I can think of Should I go to the Police? Show them what he's done? Up to now he's been so clever and never bruised my face But now I have the ultimate prize of a glowing black eye But still I fear in their care I will not be safe That they will force me back to where I will surely die As the words I'd proudly shouted, with enough distance gained ' I am never ever coming back' echoed within my weary smile How far he chased me I'll never know As I slowed the enormity of what had just happened drained But as I tears fearful of what would become betrayed my new found strength My resolve to take on whatever it took stubbornly became tattooed on my mind And as I cried in my sisters arms And my brother-in-law told me it would be OK I begun a long difficult journey To where I am today But no sleeping on floors In an alleyway Damp cold dirty bed-sits Hunger and lonely nights wondering how I would survive Were ever worse than where I had run from