She darts around the corner,
heart dancing inside her breast,
a thrum of baited excitement,
her hands wrestle to clutch her chest.
As soon as she stops she's running once more,
it's shadowing her every quick step.
A dash to the right, a skip to the left
as she runs, her stalker's bereft.
He was chasing with all he had,
prancing and swinging alongside her path,
as she galloped and span and trotted away;
it slowly incited his powerful wrath.
At the glimpse of his face,
her own set in stone -
and she skedaddled away from the danger.
He pursued with a vengeance,
of a star-crossed lover,
even though he was only a stranger.
And they twirled and they leaped as they spiraled on by,
as one ran away and another one began to lie,
"Stop and breathe my child, please don't flee,
I'm simply a man that only you can see."
Her head snapped to him as she stopped her prance away,
as she fought against her self, she realized what to say,
"I know that you're lying, and I see right through your act.
Since I know just what you are, take this as a fact."
"You've haunted me my whole life through,
never a day did you give me rest.
You dazzled along as you damn well pleased,
and it irked me so," she confessed.
"So for this day forth, I'll hide no more,
from the face of things that I've done.
I'll sleep through the night, as the dark steals the light,
and know the last thing I'll do is run."
[Because our past is a part of us too. Claim it and beautiful things happen. <3]
