ESCAPE FROM SELF

i wished
myself
some other skin
and other eyes
to take it in

not dead, but different
head to toe
new joy and sorrow
bliss and woe

hers or his
it mattered not --
an even trade
for all i've got

denied, i wished to disappear

dissolve into the atmosphere

let all this dark
meld with the night
like some tired bird
in distant flight

i wished to
shake me loose,
that's all

lest tonight
i break

or fall