… to live another life…

since he was eight years old, 
he longed to run away; 
to live another life, 
to find another way 

he got away, then, years ago, 
but has found out too late 
that running doesn't matter when 
you can't stop being

eight

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Beleaguered Servant

Owen Servant is an online poet working in a style that's been described as "compulsive". In real life, he is an actuary, because being a poet wasn't unpopular enough.

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