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Challenge of the Month VIII
Running. You are (or your character is) running from something. Or running to something. Or maybe you just left the faucet running. The theme this month is running. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
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emilieeharris

Goodbye Myself

Every time I try to run

I leave myself behind

Whether it was an accident

I never seem to mind

You’ll call me again tomorrow

And by the time I pick up the phone

I won’t remember my rehearsed goodbye

I'll forget the dark side you’ve shown

Maybe I've been running in circles

But somehow i’ve never run out of breath

Because I go to to you to revive me

But it’s you who’ll see to my death

One day I’ll escape your poisonous grasp

And learn to live on my own

Because the past is only a reminder

Of how far you’ve ever grown

So here’s to a new era

One with no more wars

Because I’ve never had a hole in my chest

All I’ve had is one in yours