Why So Ever Wish?

Everything fades away
softly or harshly glowing,
growing smaller,
end of cycle 
already written
in the fabric. 

None

to escape the thrill
and fascination, 
all the pain 
to dry in the sun
 'til hard and withered 
we lay down
to feed the grass 
beyond the pines.
It's been marked-

there's a stone

already for my Neverland,
where everything that happened
could've been something else.
I should've been Pearl De Vere.

Among those ones 

who gave up easy for the kind 
of fame that creeps 
from joyous burial mound 
to wash us with stories 
that don't need roses 
for happy endings. 
Lighting fuses not
to watch them burn-
but burn if must!

They didn't run.

Our nature shakes 
beneath the core of us.
We tremble in ways 
we can't outrun.
And they whisper-
Why so ever wish 

to run?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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