Running and Running

 

I’m running and running and running

Out of life

Soon to hit 50 not the 4 minute mile

Never got that cosy family

Simple routine

I chose to hit the bend legless

And run past anyone I loved

 

 

Running and running and running

Away from life

Words leapt up as saviours

Not my two wives

I chose to take the baton from

Strangers I saw struggling along the way

 

Giving voice to hopelessness

And dignity

That you can’t take away

 

I wasn’t running and running and running

Away from life.

I just stopped still and listened

 

To your life

 

 

©  David R Mellor 2014