running away
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Interstate Vision
Driving by orange jumpsuits on the highway
You’ll smile at me and I’ll look away
You take my right hand, your left one’s on the wheel
I felt you
and it scared me how much you could see
you were the first person to know what I'd been through
and you still wanted me?
I wasn't sure how to feel
Mother didn't care
Father didn't know.
Now dear heart,
You are all alone.
No one notices,
Or really even cares.
They won't see you.
Just a broken girl.
I get so confused
the room is spinning
then I get accused
of something I didn't do.
I try so hard
but it doesn't matter
they won't stop
until I admit they are right
and I am wrong
Avalanche
Since a quarter after midnight,the boy with one black eye,bags under both eyes,and eyelids as heavy ashis conscience,has sat under the spotlightsof the gas station,staring.
I.
You were the beacon I needed
as we trailed along a scattered glass shore.
Brine on flesh, we wished to sail
against the heartbeat of crashing waves.
We can forget about your work and the things you have to do
We can run away together, just me and you
We can get in my car and we can go far
Away
We can be isolated and we can love it that way
Someday she'll be gone, she'll have left all alone.
They'll catch on eventually, without having known
The puzzle pieced burden of her created norm,
How she sobbed through the nights, braving the storm.
I'm running away for me.
Can you try to have fun?
This has nothing to do with you.
Please don't stay long in the sun.
I will be back.
Just wait in your chair
dreaming of my pack.
Taken from the rhythm of life
Immersed into the pit of life as you know it
Guided yet lost
Controlled yet self- determined
Sought after as a case revived by the aid of hope
I’m not staying. I cannot remain still when my mind is racing with thoughts of you.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. I am going away; I am running to solve my mystery and to forgive.
Let's say we ran away
to those islands you love so much
I leave my hair all curly and wild
and collect sea shells to make jewelry to sell
you'd run a little grill shack on the beach
Let's go sailing in the water before it gets too dark tonight
Before the waves come crashing over us and capsize our lives
Let's go sailing in the water before my fears come eat me alive
The pounding keeps beating in my head,
I run, and run, and run some more,
The pounding keeps beating in my head,
Away from that thing that was my home,
The pounding keeps beating in my head,
I wanna get out, find my life in living
run from those who would hold me down
keep me use me
I can't stay here
No, not even for the promises I made
I want to be Free Me as I see
