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
Copyright © William Kofoed | Year Posted 2023
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