Ran away 5days 4nights

"If you are going to run away from home, take a dog along".

from "Blue Hiways" by William Least-Heat Moon

I ran away from home yesterday.
I really wasn't angry, just bored!
I didn't take my backpack with me
and couldn't have cared less if it poured.

I wanted to get as far away
as I could from people I know,
And I didn't want to be close by,
answering questions from my mother.

I wanted to be all by myself
and go somewhere really exciting,
Where no-one would tell me what to do
and lessons I would not be writing.

I'd see the world and make brand-new friends
And stay there just as long as it took --
I ran away from home yesterday
to my own secret place --
with a book!