By sarah dragonfleyes@excite.com
Date: 15 January 2001
modern day fairy tale
she ran
away
with a heart in her hand
red and beating
thumping against her palm
her face streaming
crying tears
they fell into the asphalt stream
sliding past her feet
her toes raw, chapped
skin white with dry skin
white skin against red heart
blue lips against black hair
her mouth an o
he screamed for her to stop
that she was running away with his heart
and he wouldn't know what to do without it
she turned her head backwards
telling him one day he would understand
that she was just borrowing it
her feet kept running
scraping their dry skin on the jagged asphalt
he followed her trail
his blood
then she stopped
said he wouldn't be without a heart
then reached in her chest
and gave him hers
as he ran away
with his feet grating their way
to the western sky
with heart in hand
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