Poem: i run away

“i run away”
by Bill Ward
1996

the world is full of monsters
  living inside my head
i feel i cannot face them
  for i would wind up dead

i worry and cringe and sweat
  my days and nights in fear
but really there’s nothing there
  for it is all in here

the monsters are not even real
  they just seem that way
but rather than facing them
  it’s easier to run away

© 1996 William R Ward
Thu Apr 25 02:47:59 PDT 1996

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