"the girl who ran away…"

 this
was the river
that taught me
to cast my line
further
than I could see,

this
was the town
where girlhood dreams
came true,
and where
I would - too soon - discover
that I had
so much more to learn
about being
the kind of woman
I wanted to be,

and not the girl
who ran away...



[photo by Steve Chitwood]