Running From Myself — A Poem

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Some days I wake up

and want to jump out of my own skin

I don’t even want to begin

My whole past feels like a sin.

Try as I might

I can’t get focused

The world’s problems choke us

My life feels like bogus.

Some days I feel

extra sensitive

like no one is listening

and everyone’s talking.

I redirect my attention

to the flowers

because they for sure

have special powers.

I need extra nature time

grounded and feeling divine

sunlight through trees

looking sublime.

Nature is always the answer

although sometimes I forget

I forget that I am hers

and she is mine

a love story

threaded through time.

Days like these

I need the little things

I need the joy that love brings

I need my own humanity.