Eight-line Poems 2

Runaway

Runaway

Run away yesterday, today, and tomorrow,
find a way out through beg, steal, or borrow,
responsibility’s just never your bag,
get out from under, make sure you don’t lag.

Dodge, duck, and wriggle, you’re really so smooth,
ever forgetful your conscience to smoothe,
there’s one thing you’ll find, though ever so deft,
as you get older you’ll have nothing left.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 02.13.25
Prompts: Runaway, yesterday.