My Running Shoes Poem by Dechen Doma Sherpa

A decade and a half ago i ran away from my home
Was cornered and brought back home before the birds came home
All of them asked what went in my head to act so strange?
But nobody heard my silent heartbreak which made me flee from home

I know now that i wasn't adopted and my sister was only teasing me
But i do at times imagine what my life would have been
A decade and a half ago i left my life to begin anew
Oh i was young and emotional, but i had the guts to venture on my own

A blessed life i have lead with my folks and no regrets
Yet a part of me yearns for the road i was curbed back from
Or perhaps its that young passionate, better highway than you way girl
But i love to share that, a decade and a half ago i ran away from my home.