I’m Ready To Run Away Poem by Louise Tredoux

What a terrible class, I did not pass, the test
we wrote, I was confused, images of you filled
my mind, there was no place left for Dan and
Naftali, I forgot to study, I felt so bad, normally
I have full marks, now I’ll be berated for ever,
but in my mind your image lives, and I prefer
feeling your touch to being praised for being
a bored student, I prefer life to dead facts in
a book, I prefer your embrace to holding a pen
and writing words, I have had enough words
to last me through eternity, the teacher says
the flesh is sinful – so be it, I have fallen in sin
and there is no turning back, the joy I have found
is making up for my lonely youth, mother died
young, father was strict, I studied every day,
we met at school, you promised me one day
you would set me free, I’m ready to run away