Escape

I am not athletic

Nor strong

Nor healthy, in body or mind

And yet every day

I make a dogged effort

A desperate effort

to run away

I am constantly stumbling

Chest heaving,

Breath sobbing

As I stagger away from

My problems

But I have a roadblock.

A brick that always trips me up

And that is

the unsettling, tormenting secret

That I can

Slide down desert dunes, splash through salty spray,

Do everything in my power to get away

But I will never escape one problem:

Me.