Outrun Poems - Poems about Outrun

I wrestle with my homesick heart collecting damages , these roads I travel on There's nowhere left to go I forget to measure distance, time and space....the world stretches out before me There's nowhere left to go But still my feet carry me straight on, longing for a destination I want to rest my head, and tell my heart...

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Trailhead latrine, cracked mirror— three of me grinning wrong. A soap shaver's chewed itself down, there's a beetle on its back in the basin. I clean my hands as best I can, wipe them on my pants, get out, back into wilderness, where I don't have to face them....

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You keep yourself so busy you don’t have time to die One day Death will drop in for a cigarette for a chat for a soul, “I still have so much to do,” you will protest, “I wanted to buy another car build another house, love someone else’s child” one cigarette span for Death could last an entire second lifetime, but you don’t have the...

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Why my mind flies in the blue skies? Why is what wroth warden wonders. Yet I stand handcuffed in a block of ice By the hands of time: my eternal threat. I am a fish inside a net; like a fly that toils In the black grunting belly of a web. Even an odd blade of leaning grass can cut A web...

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How you can outrun the past Sometimes the past chases you. You hear its footsteps in the alleys of your mind. Listen even closer and you'll hear the heartbeat of One who loves you. Instead of behind you, He stands before you, arms open, always saying, "Come to Me. I'm stronger than the past. I'm even more real than those memories. I AM right here, right now, and I will...

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How you can outrun the past Sometimes the past chases you. You hear its footsteps in the alleys of your mind. Listen even closer and you'll hear the heartbeat of One who loves you. Instead of behind you, He stands before you, arms open, always saying, "Come to Me. I'm stronger than the past. I'm even more real than those memories. I AM right here, right now, and I will...

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A man and I were in a tent when we heard a lion roar. I knew that I had to start running or I wouldn't be alive anymore. That guy said "You must be crazy, a lion can't be outran." But I didn't have to outrun the lion, I had to outrun that man. The lion caught up to...

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The sky is blue and the sun is out I get lost in the shadows of doubt The darkness seems to roll right in As I sink down in a sea of sin. I try to fight back but I just can’t win I try to start yet can’t see where to begin The four walls just seem to...

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I Don't Have To Outrun the Bear, Only You by Rick Rucker In everything there is a way, To live to fight another day. I'm not talking about being a coward, But rather being fully empowered. Life comes at us, hard and fast, You must find a way to last. The initial onslaught can be rough, But if you are tough enough To handle it...

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I can see a crystal mountain collasping in my rear view mirror --- There isn't any sound, which makes it very surreal --- So I increase the speed of my vehicle and gaze ahead --- In order to catch up to my destiny and outrun my fate....

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