Can We Run Away, Please?

Jul 2

Can we all please just run away, please?

Let’s leave this city far behind,
so the lights
are distant embers of a fire we once nurtured.
We'll pack a small bag of refreshments,
cigarettes
and a beer or two.
Then just walk where gravity pulls.
Let’s set up camp in a forest,
befriend wildlife
and celebrate the wilderness.
We’ll live off the land,
recharging our lungs on electrical trees that
stretch out from the ground.
We’ll watch rhythmic clouds dance along the horizon and on occasions
I will make a cape of leaves
and a crown from branches and I will play king of the forest.
We'll etch our initials
into oak trees and bury
unopened letters in the ground.

Let’s throw bottles filled with the memories of our day
into the forgiving sea and envelop under carrion stars.
We'll use the lucid blue sky as a blanket.
I'll tuck you in gently under the moonlight
whilst reading stories about animals that used to roam the earth
in a time before we fell in love.