Blustering beats as her feet pound on the pavement
Racing against the world in what feels like a single heartbeat.
She’s been running for miles, losing herself in a world that can no longer decipher which way is up and which way is down.
He’s been running for eternity, seeking the girl who has always been nothing more than the whimsical melody that the birds carry throughout the wind.
Running and running and running some more.
But what do you do when your feet start to get sore?
When you’re tired of running and running some more?
----<3----
She’s gotten up only to fall again.
He’s been dragged as if by an invisible hand.
The chains bound both prisoners in unending journeys.
But they created a fire that burned brighter then hell, broke free and ran fast
until daylight fell.
Swallowed in darkness with paths intertwined.
They ran and kept running with no source of guide.
She ran too fast.
She lost him.
He’s gone.
Her heart’s screaming “No!” but her mind’s saying “Move on”.
Getting lost ain’t so bad if you block out the pain.
Run.
Run.
Run.
You’ll be okay.
She stood still for a moment and took a deep breath.
Her heart racing,
Her limbs shaking,
She was scared half to death.
There she stood like a rose, hiding behind thorns to contain herself in an unbreaking barrier.
He fought and he fought and he fought to get in.
But her barriers held strong and his fight against them left him ridden with scars.
----<3----
Determined.
Devoted.
Desperation.
Desire.
He fought, is still fighting to overcome her exterior.
The thorns might hold strong as a natural defense,
But hidden within is a rose that is wilting.
She wants to give up,
To fly high in the sky
Like the three little birds that are passing her by.
They’re tweeting and chirping without a care in the world.
Oh how she’d give to get lost like that.
Ha, how absurd!
----<3----
It’s so dark.
She can’t see.
The moonlight is hidden.
SNAP.
CRUNCH.
A breaking twig.
He found her!
He’s here!
Go!
Run away!
Her mind tried to warn her.
But her heart said to stay.
Who is to say which knows the right way?
Running and running and running some more.
But what do you do when your feet start to get sore?
When you’re tired of running and running some more?
----<3----
Blindly she ran.
The trees were a blur.
The vines and the leaves,
The whole world behind her.
Faster and faster and faster she went.
She might not be happy, but she’s safe at last.
Her heart is safe from the pain of the past.
Her defenses are back, no more being afraid
Of the man who was stealing her heart day by day.
He searched every tree in his mission to reach her,
But she’s no longer in sight.
He’s lost her.
----<3----
She ran like the wind.
Faster and faster and faster than…
…slower?
She fell to the floor.
The vines grabbed at her leg.
Too fast.
Too fast.
She should have slowed down.
She’s so tired of fleeing.
She just wants to be found.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I wanted to stay.
I miss you.
I want you.
God, why am I always running away?”
----<3----
Sobbing and sobbing and sobbing some more.
Her ankle is stuck.
She’s sprawled on the floor.
It looks like it’s broken.
But it will be fine.
Her heart is the problem.
Because it’s no longer “mine”.
She wants him.
She ran.
It’s always the same.
The insecurities convince her she must run away.
She’s always abandoned.
Always forgotten.
The best of the best can quickly turn rotten.
He stopped running to find her.
He’s not giving up.
He’s just tired, so tired.
Like, “What the ****?!”
Why did she leave?
“Come back! ******* a!
I miss you.
I love you.
Why couldn’t you stay?”
Two souls that are broken are breaking again.
They’re both lost, they’re both losing.
It looks like the end.
She’s curled up with leaves on the cold forest floor.
He’s gripping his head pacing like a caged dog.
His thoughts are so loud.
He just wants her back.
But her crying is louder,
Her heart’s out of whack.
The darkness is welcomed.
The cold is refreshing.
He’s starting to cry just out of frustration.
Dismembered.
Forsaken.
Defeated.
Distressed.
Two souls that are lost among all the rest.
----<3----
He couldn’t stay there.
He needed to move.
So he walked and he walked and he walked on some more,
Only stopping to rest when his feet began to feel sore.
Propping himself against a tree, he tried to understand why,
Why she left when his heart was beginning to fly.
The birds sang for them.
The stars knew their story.
Every heartbeat felt right, every day a new journey.
And now, it’s so empty.
The seconds tick by.
The world’s in slow motion.
All because of goodbye.
He closes his eyes and leans his head back.
Only then does he hear it,
A soft little crack
----<3----
The leaves are rustling.
A twig just broke.
A lizard?
A squirrel?
Some sick twisted joke?
Whatever it is, the sound gave him hope.
Maybe it’s her?
He could hardly cope.
Climbing to his feet, he sought out the noise.
The sounds grew louder to his surprise.
He first heard a muffled groan from below.
But the closer he got, the sobs seemed to grow.
He knew that voice.
It was her!
Up ahead.
God, he couldn’t wait to see her again.
He ran and kept running with one goal in mind.
He’d find her.
She’s here.
She can no longer hide.
----<3----
She tried to get up but her ankle gave out,
So she yelped and then quickly, she covered her mouth.
Who knew what was out there?
The night was still black.
She was tired of fighting,
She wanted him back.
Her sobbing grew louder as she laid there like that.
She felt helpless.
Alone.
She wanted him back.
Her heart began to pound when she heard a noise behind her.
He’s here.
It’s him.
He actually found her.
Her mind screamed to keep running,
But her heart begged to stay.
Lord, she was tired of running away.
Her ankle was injured,
So there she sat trapped,
With leaves in her hair and tears in her lap.
Waiting and waiting and waiting some more.
Today is the day her whole body is sore.
She’s tired of running from the things she wants most.
So she looks up and searches for her handsome ghost.
He’s hidden nearby.
She senses him there.
Her body is tingling from his secret stare.
----<3----
He catches her eyes seeking him in the dark,
But he’s nervous she’ll run so he stays behind bark.
Watching and watching and watching some more,
Until he sees tears running down her sweet face.
Her agony kills him, his heart won the race.
He’s broken.
She’s breaking.
The waiting must end, so he swoops in and saves her like no other can.
Sinking down to his knees, he wraps up his beauty
As sobs overtake them in a moment of unity.
----<3----
Even though their worlds crashed, the past is the past.
They’re holding each other,
Together at last.
Only when her sobs seize does she begin to see
The tears in his eyes put there by thee.
She broke him by running,
But that’s all she knew.
Oh how she wishes he already knew that she loved him,
Still loves him,
More than the stars
The world’s nonexistent in a place like “ours”.
Their sorrow has eased, for they’re home at last.
The running and running is dead in the past.
The night is still dark, but they both haven’t noticed,
Because they have grasped onto their saving light within all the darkness.
Together they burn brighter than the largest fire ever made.
No words are needed, just the promise to stay.
It screams louder and louder and louder some more,
Until the whole forest is cast with love galore.
----<3----
Moaning.
Sweet kisses.
A song made of gasps.
The forest floor spattered with loves brightest match.
Sweating and trembling from their passionate throws,
“I miss you”s.
“I love you”s.
Their stories unfold, only to be raveled again in a blanket of “happily ever after”s.
----<3----
Soaring through life, she’s as happy can be
Bundled in the arms of only he.
“******* a, I love you. It’s crazy, I know. But let’s run away where no one will ever know.”
She looked at him, and then shook her head no.
“I’m tired of running, because with you I’m free. My heart is safe here, I will no longer flee.
**** running, it *****. My feet always get sore. I’m staying, not running, not running no more.”
The look in her eyes made his heart skip a beat,
Their feet may be sore,
But they’re willing to leap.
Flying and flying and flying some more.
This time I’m not tired so baby,
Lets soar.
...I love you...