Poetic Mondays: Running in Circles (B.E.S. 4/11)
Long ago the author of the Brown Eyed Soul poems contacted us at Her Campus and sent us the 11 poems we’re gradually showing you. A few days later we received a little more information about this anonymous writer explaining them in his words. So we give them to you as the introduction to this poem, “These poems are written from the perspective of a not-a-boy-not-yet-a-man that in the isolation that comes with loneliness, found a way to put his feelings into paper, and eventually narrate a story that right now, he’s deciding to share with you”.
Baby if we’re running in circles,
Then who’s chasing who?
We must stop turning the tables,
If we want this to stay true.
We’ve both been hurt before,
But we need to come undone.
If we want to make it safely to the shore,
We must swim together as one.
Tirelessly fighting with phantoms,
That were made up by our minds.
We’ve got to loosen up our cannons,
And take off these merciless blinds.
You’re out of reach just like a racer,
And I don’t know how to make you see,
That if you’re gonna be a chaser,
Then you better be chasing me.
Baby let’s stop running in circles,
And let me run to you.
Let’s drop these turning tables,
So we can finally come through.
by Brown Eyed Soul