song for a runaway mind

When I tell you I love you, I mean it.
Let that resonate.

I know you're tired and afraid
that you're angry at Hope
and you want to outrun it,
curl up with a cup of aloneness, and die

But you won't

If you try, I will hunt you

sneak up on your neck
breathe up & down it
shoulder to ear

put soft hands on your throat and then
strangle the sadness
right out of you

[submitted 10/06/03]