RUN

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads--dVerse

My first baseball game

second grade I believe

recess out on the playground

they didn't use a baseball

it was a soccer sized ball

you whacked at it with the bat

and then you ran

that's what I saw the other kids do

you ran

I didn't know one thing about baseball 

I didn't know you were supposed to stop at the base when the ball was being thrown there 

and someone called out SAFE!

or OUT!

Mom's Second Big Mistake 

having shown me nothing 'bout anything

'cept how to be passive aggressive

so I just kept running

running home

because I didn't know 

you know

and the kids thought I was dumb or something

or maybe had a screw loose

'cause next time up I did it again

and they were yelling STOP

but I kept on running 

running home

and I didn't look back

And when it came time to bust out of

that little town 

years down the line

I ran

and kept on running

running away from home 

And I didn't look back