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Away from here!

Wanting to start new: to escape memories of abuse!

By Jennifer CooleyPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
Away from here!
Photo by Tetiana Shevereva on Unsplash

~ Away from here ~

I can feel you in my heart

the answers made so clear

that's why I know

I gotta go,

gotta get away from here

Find someplace new with

things to do,

away from you.

I cannot help what's happened here

How was I supposed to know,

that this was the way

that God would have it go.

I cannot change the path

in which my life now has to go;

This thing in my heart

won't go away,

And who will ever understand?

So all I can do

is live day by day.

In a place where I can get lost

SWALLOWED

by the crowd,

so that I fit in!

I can feel you in my heart

the answers made so clear,

that's why I know

I gotta go

Gotta get away from here.

Come and go

in my life

as I know,

Nothing but

a stranger again.

No more tears

I promised myself

this time

I'm gonna get out

No more crying

Alone in the night

No more dying

No more fights,

This time

I'm gonna win

Something brighter

something new

Something

so much more

then I ever

imagined,

since leaving

loving you.

Come and go

in my life

as I know

Nothing but

a Stranger again.

I lost so much of my life

and what I'd be doing right now,

making the whole world Happy?

Around me

just so long as some loves me.

I'm not asking for the wholes words love

Just one person will do,

Somebody who can get to know

the things I like to do.

Somebody who understands the kind of work

that goes into discovering a way to get to know

someone with so many different little quirks.

Come and go

as I know

in my life

Nothing but a Stranger again

until the very End!

I'm smiling at the future

and leaving behind the pain,

Looking forward to new friendships

and re-kindling ones

that were never meant to be lost.

And I just know

that somewhere out there

is a new love

a better love

someone who'll see

what to do

about a girl like me,

Learning how to live with a turntable in my heart.

For all the manic sessions

and prayers on my knees

it's not just anybody

that I can let it,

on this earth

Who's left to believe

in God

and what's happened to me,

what lives inside

invisible to the eyes

to realize

all I can do

is bide my time,

until I find those eyes,

where the truth can pass

and the rest can be sweet history

as God attempts to guide the way.

I'm smiling at the future

leaving behind the pain

moving forward to new friendships

re-kindling ones I left behind from days past.

I can feel you in my heart

the answers made so clear,

that's why I know

I gotta go

gotta get away

from here!

In my life

I like a lot of adventure

what's the point of life

and living it

if I cannot see the world?

I don't want a place

to lay my weary head

I don't want a place to rest,

I want to see it all

before the storm from heaven

comes along

and changes everything down here,

I want to live around people

who know what it means to laugh

and dance

and joke around for a while.

Not live my life

Day by day as though

that's all there is to life

to work and home again,

as if there's no hope

no other way

to live

no other way to go,

when there is so much more

to the pictures of everything

that time remains to tell,

God lives without regrets

so then neither should we.

I can feel you in my heart

the answers made so clear,

that's why I know

I gotta go,

Gotta get away from here.

Find someplace new

with things to do

away from you.

I cannot help what's happened here

How was I supposed to know,

that this was the way

that my higher power would have it go?

I cannot change the path

in which my life now has to go

this thing in my heart

and who will ever understand,

so all I can do

is live day by day,

in a place where I can get lost

SWALLOWED by the crowd

so that I fit in.

I can feel you in my heart

the answers made so clear,

that why I know

I gotta go,

Gotta get away from here!

inspirational

About the Creator

Jennifer Cooley

I've been writing as long as I could hold a crayon! Remember writing my first story like it was yesterday at 5. I remember the details of the day, location, time, excitement & where the story was preserved for all time! Lots Born From That!

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