The Runaway

Here's another oldie from 2006. This is just a poem where I was experimenting with repeating specific key words. Enjoy :)

THE RUNAWAY (Bethany S. Moore, 2006)

Night falls, the day is cloaked

in darkness.

Tears fall upon the bed

in darkness.

Memories come but all is clouded

by darkness;

Thoughts come of how you left:

by darkness.

You said that you would never leave;

You said that you would always be

my hero.

I thought I could rely on you,

I thought that I could call you true;

my hero.

Yet you betrayed me; lied to me

in daylight.

I discovered what you’d done

in daylight.

My heart was torn, my spirit crushed

by daylight.

You trampled love upon the ground

by daylight.

I used to watch for your return,

with eagerness my heart would yearn

for you.

Yet never did you come that way,

yet always did I plead and pray

for you.

Years have passed, my thoughts have faded

into darkness.

So long, I fear your name shall plunge

into darkness.

Why can’t you turn and see the light

through darkness?

Why can’t you hear Him calling you

through darkness?

Shall you remain but a shadow

in my mind? did you really go

forever?

Can it be that you and I

weren’t meant to be

forever?

Somehow I know that you’ll come back

by daylight.

You left by night, concealed in dark, yet you’ll return

by daylight.

Although the old times shan’t remain (the happy times we had

in daylight),

As long as I can call you mine, I’ll be glad to linger here

in daylight.