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“Because I would run away for Pain”

April 30, 2019
By Anonymous

Because I would run away from Pain -


Pain would gladly chase me -


The path was full of choices -


And Hardships

 


I hastily ran - She was always right behind


And I grew tired  of the chase


Enjoying the scenery to await Her


For Her presents was inevitable -

 

Side by side, She talks of failures and lives lost


In my life - young and old -


Every word adds weights that I must carry


She said she’ll give me a ten-second head start -


The author's comments:

This was a project assigned to me to make a poem that reflected the style of Emily Dickenson's "Because I could not stop for Death."


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