Getaway (Poetry)

I never found you in
the small space I expected
you’d be hiding in
although your shell was there
the sweetly-worn disguise
you paraded in
truth was most of the time
you were elsewhere
inhabiting a place
just far enough away
I couldn’t follow
had no way to fathom
all that distance
your mind created
in that less-than-a-split-second
I wasn’t looking
wasn’t being
as observant
so I completely missed

your getaway