Running Barefoot

This was performed as a blues song at Beetnics Cafe in Marion,IN USA.

I'm running barefoot in the street.

Don't need any shoes on my feet.

I'm running around without a care.

The wind is flowing through my hair.

 

I'm running naked in the road.

My clothes were too much of a load.

I threw them all into the trash.

I have no pockets for my cash.

 

What cash? I gave that all away.

I'm sure I'll get it back someday.

If I need some, I'll make some more.

Besides, what's that money for.

 

A vehicle for your desire.

Your comfort makes you the buyer.

Right now, I just want to be me.

I find comfort in being free.

 

I'm free***to run all through my mind.

On streets inside my head I find,

The comfort that outside I seem to miss.

Inside is where I find my bliss.

 

I take the road inside my skull.

It doesn't lead to any mall.

It leads to where I can be free

to run naked and just be me.

 

 

M.J.S.

Reviews

[Raef C. Boylan]

"I want to be naked, running through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaos, that you'd think I dare not be
I want to be weightless, flying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations at the shoes upon my feet
I want to be naked, running through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaos, that you'd think I dare not be
I want to be weightless, flying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations and return to what I was born to be"

- Alanis Morissette, 'So-Called Chaos'

My mind linked them up together as companions.

I like this; the breezy rhythm and the important message, i.e. materialism isn't all there is to life.
Looking forward to the day your songs are on the radio, eliminating the bland and shallow
[even if this one is a poem, it makes equally good lyrics...choruses are generally lame anyway]

Great piece.
Thanks for posting it.

[Sami Khalil]

I enjoyed this read .
Thank you for penning.

[Desert Dreamer]

I feel the joy in this poem. I'd love to live in a world where we were free to run around barefoot and naked, without the need of so many material things.

[Laura E. Aranda]

This was the first poem I have read in a long time and instantly liked it! very good

[angelina neves]

Wonderful! And what better way to walk around but barefoot and naked and inside our own minds where we can be always free! :)

[Badger-dee]

Nice, I like the carefree feel of it.

[Sarah]

Second to last stanza was my favorite. Really unique & I loved reading this! Fabulouss ! (:

[Steffi]

"I'm running naked in the road.
My clothes were too much of a load.
I threw them all into the trash.
I have no pockets for my cash."

[PhoeniX]

great enjoyment comes when you are free. what a sensation to just leave everything and let it be. good job

[*~Poetic_Essence~*]

I love it..it speaks volumes..this is sort of a soul searching piece.. we all have to find ourselves in order to truely know ourselve and be happy..sometimes that means gettin away from everyone else, just taking time and thinking to yourself..
"I'm free***to run all through my mind.
On streets inside my head I find,
The comfort that outside I seem to miss.
Inside is where I find my bliss."

[Anthony Morningstar]

And the best reason to be naked to be free away from all those demands that "fashion" can impose. and more so if only we all could just peel away all the things that hold us to a false society.