As it Runs
by Crystal Barkley

 

As it runs

Forward it heads

Back is what it leaves

 

Away

It tries to get

Behind follows it

 

Harder

It tries to escape

A gap it tries to create

 

A chase

Is what is found

As it gets tracked down

 

It realizes

What is mislead

Behind is what leads ahead

 

CRYSTAL BARKLEY is a student at Rutgers–Camden majoring in English and minoring in journalism. She writes in her spare time as a way to vent and to get out the day's frustrations. Although she usually doesn't like to share her poetry, she's trying to step out of her box. She edits poetry for Writers’ Bloc.

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