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Runaways

December 12, 2019
By SkeletalWing PLATINUM, Olathe, Kansas
SkeletalWing PLATINUM, Olathe, Kansas
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Favorite Quote:
"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud" - Maya Angelou


There are kids that run

The ones that are strays

These are the kids

That we call runaways


They run from their pain

Because it’s all they know

They never once learned

To use their pain to grow


One runs from the sounds

The screams and the shouts

The breaking of glass

From which fear seeps out


Two run from the past

From a fight gone wrong

The memory of that gun

Like a deafening song


Three run from the scene 

That unfolded under the stars

The one where their brother

Succumbed to his scars


Four run from their fate

But there is no escape

It always catches up

Taking on an evil shape


Five run from hidden pains

The deep, mental kind

Which tears them each apart

Destroys their very minds

 

All these kids run off

From horrors in the night

Since they weren’t taught

To turn back and fight


These are the kids

Each called ‘runaway’

They run to escape

To survive another day



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