Run as fast as you can

Attempting the Villanelle form

Run as fast as you can and I'll follow

no one else needs to know, we are leaving today

Save your worries and thoughts for tomorrow

There's nothing left for us here, only days that are hollow

I don't believe in the gods to whom they tell me to pray

Run as fast as you can and I'll follow

You get your time once, there's no more to borrow

'Use what you're given', that's what you always say

Save your worries and thoughts for tomorrow

We have nothing to lose, no more pride left to swallow

See their blank faces wiped by boredom's decay?

Run as fast as you can and I'll follow

Come and live the real tragedy, not Shakespearean sorrow

Leave the books and the rules, take my hand, go astray!

Save your worries and thoughts for tomorrow

They don't dream about new days, in nostalgia they wallow

You and I chase horizons; we will drown if we stay

Run as fast as you can and I'll follow

Save your worries and thoughts for tomorrow