OUTRUNNING THE WORLD

you ran and
the world couldn't
keep up with you

here in your third year
you discovered
falling

as if
the world had
tripped up

you look at
your grazed knee
amazed at your self

blood oozes from
your chubby little skin
I cry - you do not

you amazed
there is an inside to you
that can somehow leak out

you dip a finger in
taste
the redness

our laughter
is a spring
that bubbles out

you can not
understand
my tears

my feeling
your pain
on your behalf

or in this case
your
"not-pain"

"Daddy - not cry!"
you comfort me
you dry my eyes

with golden curls
"Tilly run again
...see?"

and you do so
to prove a point
and once again

you are immortal
outrun
the world

leaving your father
further and further
behind you

you run into your future
to become your self
a tiny thin scar

the only reminder
of a pain only I
can remember