William Kofoed Poet Free verse

Running Away

the mornings light
	before me lies
dawn does break
	in eastern sky

and I know not
	what in the day
what I shall do
	stay or go away

a distant path
	does call to me
to places that
	I might be

and do the things
	that I do not know
and learn the things
	that I might know

and yet the fear
	of what might be
what I might find
	and I might be

but yet to stay
	so simple be
no need to learn
	no need to try

and yet but here
	the night I’ve spent
had not sweet dreams
	but nightmares here

and yet perhaps
	in light of day
perhaps might I
	new things find

perhaps if I
	but only stay
somehow today
	might better be

yet distant roads
	places far away
somehow yet still
	does call to me

perhaps this night
	is what I flee
perhaps the darkness
	will fade away

and distant lands
	if traveled to
will still at night
	find nightmares there

perhaps the call
	to run away
a siren’s call
	to ruin be

so here I am
	awaiting the dawn
perhaps this day

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