by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: November 06, 2009   Last Updated: March 22, 2012

Getting Away

 
You're
getting
away

'Can't take
it anymore

Once you
step outside
you will be
closing the door

for
good

But that
is how
you want it

With jacket
zipped up tight

Train
ticket
in your
pocket

Getting
away

From the misery
and despair

A cold breeze
is blowing

and its cutting
through your hair

But
you

don't
care

Don't even feel
the breeze

All your life
you have fought
against the

cold
winter
freeze

That
is

the
sum -

the climate
of your
fear

When every
passing year
brought the same

bitter
tears
of desolation

Why
does
he

cause
you 
pain?

Hitting you
again

as your mother
felt the
strain

She
couldn't
stop 
him

Only cry out
in her shame

Hitting you
Cursing you
Call you
nasty names

But
you

grew
up

Began
to hit

right
back

But now
you're tired
of fighting

Too tired
too

attack
anymore

You just
want
to

get
away

You love
your mother
but you
know you

cannot 
stay

She packs
your bags -
and gives you
what she's got

With tears
in her eyes,
she hugs you
on the spot

And then
you leave...

early
morning
grey

Satchel on
your back

and into
mists
you stray

One
glance
back

and then
you're gone

On an
Inter-City train

from
the
window

you
gaze
on

Lost in thought
You lose all track
of time

And a
hundred
miles away

a mother
lays her head
and cries...

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