two posts today! this one just came almost fully formed

I was always running
Sometimes from who I was, often from the
Whole damn world
The world which wanted me to be
This or this or even that

Sometimes I ran from love
The scary weight of it
The inexplicable
Beautiful face of it

I ran to be alone
And safe
Safe and alone with just my words for comfort

I was a long distance runner
And did not feel alone out there
In the woods, and the rain,
And the sunlight glinting through the trees
Making it hard to see.

He was always running
He could not stop moving
Always towards some shiny chaos
Some torrid adventure
Some crazy plan to stop time in its tracks

He would stumble, laugh and run faster
Singing glory glory to us, to me, to the art
Eventually the ground vanished and he ran on air
Laughing, haughty still
Damaged, crashing
Vital

She was always running
I wanted her to stop, just for a second
Explain to me
What she was running from and who she was running to
I wanted to catch her and tell her
I was always running too
To let her know
Understand
She did not need
To run alone.