escape.

                  running, running
  you beat the ground
        past the tall trees
          killing pretty weeds
unkind stones quickly bleed
                        your two too-soft feet
     kissing dead leaves

            in the river
your wrinkles are gone    
                                      hidden in still wavering folds
                          in eyes of grey-green mold
             soles which you cannot console
    cannot mute the time that tolled
for the present you do not hold.

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