Run AwayA Poem by John ByrdJust run away From what you love the most From what makes you smile everyday From your motivation to wake up every day. Just run away. Don’t hold on to it Don’t fight for it. Don’t wrestle with love. Just run away And let it beat you up Don’t learn how to accept the struggle. Don’t accept that it will never be perfect. Just keep letting one little mistake Run you away. Never giving you the opportunity To truly know what love is. Running before it gets real. Yea love involves pain Necessary pain But you wouldn’t know that if you ran. Give it all up that easily. Every single time do the same thing. Don’t learn from your past. Stay provincial And just run away. Now here I am running from commitment. One look from her and I smile. But I try not to pay that attention. I want to live the ideal bachelor life. Party, drink, and have sex with every girl possible. Getting serious with someone will hinder that. So just ignore it and be the “typical” man. You know what’s right and what’s wrong. But let’s do all the wrong things the right way. You know she could make you one of the happiest men alive. He knows what she has. He sees the potential. But like a little boy He runs away… © 2014 John Byrd |
StatsAuthorJohn ByrdDetroit, MIAboutJunior at Michigan State University. Hip Hop and poetry are my two favorite things. Childish Gambino is my favorite artist. Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau are my favorite .. more..Writing
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