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Run Away With Me

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Run Away With Me

To the mountains far
and the oceans wide.
Take my hand.

Down winding paths,
a road; unpaved.
It doesn’t have to mean much…

With an engine roaring in our ears,
summer’s breeze blowing our hair.
Look at me. Smile.

Leaving the past so far behind
I forgot to ask directions—
Your hand meets mine as I shift

First gear; gets us running
Second gear; gets us going
Third gear; don’t think now
Fourth gear; down the on-ramp
fifth; look at me. smile.

What do I look like now
an adventure? am I fun?
Close your eyes


if only for a moment





Listen.

I didn't really want to include a title with this one, mostly because it's supposed to be read as a part of the poem, but I feel like if I were to have just put it as the title, people wouldn't fully get what I'm trying to get across.  I actually wrote this one night after I had gone to see one of my friends.  I don't really remember writing it because I was really tired when I did, but I remember losing the inspiration after the last line, which is why I left it there.  I'm thinking of posting this one several different times with different punctuation, and perhaps with the extra stuff I wrote in there as one version, but I wrote the extra stuff the next day, so I don't feel like it has the same impact.

I punctuated it here the way I did to try to get across the way it should be read, and honestly I think this one is a little better appreciated read aloud.  I really like this one, personally because I wrote it to sort of have one message when you read each stanza as a collective piece, but the last line of each one speaks a little deeper than just running away with someone.  Buuuut, I think I'll leave that part open to interpretation.
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Dead-Flame's avatar
very very beautiful,

will make you take away anyone with you.