Why is it so far away?

One word,
can break me apart,
chip me down,
skinny.

Why is the light always on the other side?
But what I wonder the most
is why am I always
on the dark one
even when I’m trying to
run away,
desperately away
from the shadow
into
that word,
that one word
that will never be mime.

One day,
I say,
I will be able to,
finally,
successfully,
run away.

But until that day,
I will always keep
that
word in mind…