MAYBES


Maybe you should hide.
Maybe you should run
like a coward
into the woods
where the bad things can't get you.


Maybe you should flee,
frightened, flustered,
until you can catch your breath
and take back the night
prepared for its threats.


Maybe you should make yourself safe,
for he that rights and runs away
lives to run another day.
Maybe you should get moving.

Maybe you should run.
Maybe you should dash out of here
before it gets any worse.
Maybe you should escape
while you can.
Maybe you should jump ship
and hope the sharks
aren't yet circling.


Maybe you should run.
Maybe you should get out.
Maybe you should run.
Maybe you should fly.
Maybe you should run
as you have so many times before.
I would.

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