Poem: I Run

by Fiona
  
Rain courses down my face,
My hair is plastered to my cheeks,
And still, I run.
 
Slanted sheets of raindrops
Fill my already full eyes.
And still, I run.
 
I am blinded by the torrents,
My chest burns, I'm out of breath.
And still, I run.
 
Leg muscles cramp as my feet
pound the slippery pavement.
And still, I run.
 
Feet pounding on the wet asphalt,
Blood pounding in my drowning ears,
And still, I run.
 
I've fallen once; it won't happen again:
This time I'll only trust my feet
And keep running.
 
I think I've lost my way home
Then I remember I was thrown out.
And so, I run.
 
Someone new is in my place;
I'm just a discarded toy.
And so, I run.
 
Darkness is closing in upon me.
Outrunning it is my only hope.
And so, I run.
 
I run from my past and past mistakes,
I run from his name and empty promises.
I run from his laugh and warm embrace,
I run in the downpour to my future.
 
I run.