Running

• Artist: tiakat333
• Description: I don't know, maybe gaians won't appreciate this poem... I like comments but NOT insults. Seriously, writing comes from the heart and if you don't appreciate it don't say anything. But anyways, at least this poem is grammatically correct.
• Date: 12/29/2008
• Tags: running life

Do we really run because we’re scared? Of course, but more importantly we run because we need to run. We’re cowards, amateurs, we can’t handle anything. Clearly we run to get away, but not from anything in particular, except maybe our own thoughts. Maybe we’re scared of ourselves. Our capacities as humans, for love and loss and pain and happiness and we’re so scared that the only thing we know how to do is leave it all. We don’t want to think because then we’ll remember, and when you remember you begin to feel. It’s so much easier to be numb, not to think, just to run. Not to get out of anywhere, but to make sure you’re not getting anywhere new. We’re liars. We’re not running for the cause or the outcome or to feel good, we’re running to distract. We’re done when our heads are as empty as our shoes, we’re done when it’s gone, when it’s over and the timers have stopped. Not because time’s run out, but because it’s never ending and impossible and illogical and infinite. And we instantly understand absolutely nothing, in the same way that forever is less appealing than tomorrow.

Comments

[SilberIris]

i actually like this poem. it has some truth behind it. nice job biggrin

[tiakat333]

oh yeah, i definitely didn't mean it literally. although it applies that way too... the main thing i was thinking of was how we run from our problems, but it works for a lot of things.

[Nihill]

Good stuff! I think 'running' in this sense could be a euphemism for a lot of the senseless things we do simply to forget, and all the ways we run away. Perhaps you meant it that way? 5/5

[Nisa the Brown Nose Clown]

I agree with Gravetye and Darkstar. But commenting as the entry as a whole rather than genre, I found it very good. C: It covers something that most don't think about. Its covers the simple question. 'Why?' Overall, it was a 4.5/5 but I gave a 5. C:

[DiamondWings 23]

Love it!
It got me thinking.

[Gravetye]

Like darkstar said, it reads more like an essay. But a lyrical essay, if that makes any sense. I liked it. Especially the last line.

[little_shtwy_turtle]

It's nice. Some stuff that would make it better
Instead of: amateurs, we can’t handle anything
You should use amateurs; we can’t handle anything

I found a few grammar mistakes... but other than that- it's fine.