If I run away

by Glitter weaver

Hi, this is a one-shot poem I've written about the day Gale asks if Katniss wants to run away with him. It is only rated 'T' because it's The Hunger Games. So yeah, please review and please don't judge it too harshly if you don't like it. Hope you like it! And; 'May the odds be ever in your favour' :)

If I run away

Out in the woods, he posed the question to me

Shall we run away, shall we be free?

We could live out here forever being in the wild

We could start a family one day, have a child.

We could escape Capitol's hold

Grow into our age, die because we're old

Instead of being sent into the games

We can wander around the woods, living in open plains

That night I tossed and turned

In my head the questioned burned

Do I leave or do I stay?

Be free or be caged?

If I run away

From my life in District 12 I'll stray

Leaving mother and Prim behind

Would be unjust, unkind

I fear for their lives and what will happen to them

If they'll be classed as a traitor or condemned

The guilt would kill me.

If I run away

Would it be the ultimate price I'd pay?

Would we be hunted down by airships

Or turned into an Avox?

That would be impossible for me to bear.

If I run away

I would leave at dawn, the new day

Gale and I would be free

Inseparable for all of eternity.

But I can't run away

Because it is my fate to stay

To see what the 74th Hunger Games

Brings in favour to me.