Running in Place - A Freewrite Poem

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Woke the beast from dreamless sleep
  T'was a night of pale cold light
White fur flashed like frozen wind
  That fateful day she first took flight

Does Promise beckon her strive forth
  Does Fear pursue her from astern?
Her piercing howl the moon forgot
  The icey air in her breath burn

She ran and ran with all her might
  Of where she was she knew no trace
Her soul shone in her tear-glazed eye
  She knew, she knew, she ran in place

No start, no goal
  An endless ether
No end in sight
  No stopping either
O endless echo
  Is there an Other?
A voice, a kindred,
  A stir of laughter?

Her lonely cry
  in a never-ending dive:
"I am here... I am here!
      ...I am alive! "

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This is for the prompt running in place. This of course took well longer than 5 minutes (I seem to be breaking the rules a lot lately, haha ). Loosely inspired by this song