Living in my
own secret bubble
floating away
from any sign of trouble.
Place myself
in isolation
so I don’t have to
deal with any altercation.
Spend so long
worrying about myself
I don’t have time
to think about anyone else.
This is not the person
I want them to see
or the man
I ever wanted to be.
It wasn’t
always this way
but I hit
a bump on life’s highway.
The 50 year old poet 