keep running

you hear
the mother in the store
screaming
at her son.
the son,
keeps running.
she screams
louder, calling
out his name.
she threatens him,
she throws
a handful
of coins at
the child. stop,
she yells, but
he keeps running.
you can't
help but believe
that he'll always
be running from someone
or something.
he's learned
how so well.