A/N: My first WoT-poem, so please go easy on me! I know it isn't good, but I gave it a shot anyway. And if anyone have a better name for this poem, I am VERY open for suggestions!

Disclaimer: As much as I wish, as much as I pray, WoT will never be mine... RJ is the boss, and there is nothing I can do to change that...

Setting: It is set in TGH, when our dear Rand have to learn to channel. Somewhere along the road between Fal Dara and Cairhien... Enjoy!

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I can't run

It is there

Always

I can't run away

It is inside me

I hate it

It is sickening

Like oil all over me

I drown

But I just want to run

I don't want to be me

I'm not the

Dragon Reborn

I'm me

Rand al'Thor

A sheepherder

But even if I hate it

It is there

Always:

Saidin

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A/N: Before you all go and flame me; yes, I know he both loves and hates saidin, but I choose tojust put the hate thing here, because back then when this poem is set, he didn't dare to admit even to himself that he loved saidin. Now: REVIEW!