Running Away Poem by William Kofoed

the mornings light
before me lies
dawn does break
in eastern sky

and I know not
what in the day
what I shall do
stay or go away

a distant path
does call to me
to places that
I might be

and do the things
that I do not know
and learn the things
that I might know

and yet the fear
of what might be
what I might find
and I might be

but yet to stay
so simple be
no need to learn
no need to try

and yet but here
the night I've spent
had not sweet dreams
but nightmares here

and yet perhaps
in light of day
perhaps might I
new things find

perhaps if I
but only stay
somehow today
might better be

yet distant roads
places far away
somehow yet still
does call to me

perhaps this night
is what I flee
perhaps the darkness
will fade away

and distant lands
if traveled to
will still at night
find nightmares there

perhaps the call
to run away
a siren's call
to ruin be

so here I am
awaiting the dawn
perhaps this day