Ruth Negga is credited with the statement, “You become an actor, some people do, not everybody, to hide and disappear and I worry sometimes, ‘Gosh, doing this circuit, as they call it, is very much presenting yourself to the world’, and that can be a little intimidating for actors who basically like to hide.”  This really struck a chord in me.   Sometimes I take for granted that artistic expression will be used to explain aspects of the artist.  This is not always the case.  Extend Ruth’s characterization of “actor” to “writer” and then to “blogger”.  Social media is an avenue for either revealing the self or hiding the self behind a screen of bland mutterings or disingenuous cheerfulness.  My poem “Binding Words” examines the path of a person hiding in their expression.  The stanzas demonstrate the price that’s paid in the effort.