Run...Please...Go

♦ Al Pirani ♦

Dreams run, but please don’t go.

They sprint away and all you want to do is run after them.

Crawl as the world around you turns into ruins and your knees bleed.

But your dreams speed around you like the world.

And all you can do is curl in a ball.

Please don’t go.

Please don’t go at all.

I need you here to comfort me.

Without you I wouldn't have blood.

Without you I couldn’t sink into this mud.

Or hear the big thuds of ruins crashing down on me.

Without you my hand wouldn’t be moving.

It wouldn’t be reaching through a tiny hole to grab hold of any fraction of the dream.

None of it was fun, but please don’t go.

Please don’t give up on me.

I need your weight to keep me humble.

I need your voice to make my heart rumble.

I need you to not go or else this world will stumble.

Please don’t go.

Please don’t go at all.

I sprawl so if you want to run you can.

Sprint like a man across the ruins.

You ruined my chance of ever catching up to my dream.

Of ever running up and hugging my dream like it was my last.

All my tears are welling in my eyes for the day when they will pour on my dreams.

All my blood waiting for other skin to touch.

All my warm breaths waiting to be felt by someone else.

Please don’t go.

Please don’t go at all.

Please don’t fall and hurt yourself.

Because I did that for you.

Please don’t sprawl on the bloody ruins.

Because I'm already here.

Please don’t go.

Please don’t go at all.

Because I need your hand.

Before I sink into the sand.

On this scary ruined land.

Our love was grand.

Grand it was.

Cause, now I can’t seem to let you go.

I’m latched onto you like a magnet.

Wherever you walk I'm right behind you dragging my bloody feet.

Dreams run, but please don’t go.

I dream of forgetting this love.

Because if I don’t I sink deeper.

I close my eyes.

And I dream of a blue sky.

A sky where I can fly freely.

Really!

Our hands are together and we trade a smile.

No matter how many miles, this love never breaks.

Our hearts never ache.

But, the world with ruined ruins always shakes.

And it was also just a dream that is only running farther from me.

Dreams run, but please don’t go.

I dream of forgetting this love.

Because if I don’t I sink faster.

so

Run... please... go...