This Is A Poem Written To Escape Doing Something Else

THIS IS A POEM WRITTEN TO ESCAPE DOING SOMETHING ELSE This is a poem written to escape doing something else Perhaps in a way all my poems have been written to escape doing something else Some lifetime work I never wanted to do? Some hard business task? Some duty of life I felt myself not up to yet? Some meeting some personal confrontation? But this poem A small poem indeed Is written because I fear the longer work I have to do Will not be alright- But then don't I also fear this poem too and all the poems Will not be alright? All my life I have been escaping into poetry- Why in my old age how in my old age Should I Change this now?