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Found Myself
May 26, 2015
Found myself
running laps on the track
with my spikes tearing rubber
and my shoulders in the sun.
Found myself
filling my heaving lungs
with oxygen and trying to
quench the Sahara of my tongue.
Found myself
with tired thighs and cramping calves
but still my heart kept telling me to run
because I find myself
in these moments of pain and mental war
to be alive in every step and every breath and
when I'm runnnig laps on the track
I'm flying.
© Elizabeth Y., Phoenix, AZ
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I run cross country and track and, if you couldn't tell from this piece, I absolutely love to run. I wrote this in my head during a cool down after a tough, but exhilirating, track workout.