nickname

Isabella, a name I was given to exist.

       Yet this name has never seemed to stick,

I’m only called this by strangers or those supposedly above me

So why when the words escape does the translation seem fuzzy?

Bella, I go by, is what I usually say

A nickname claimed since my very first day

            Maybe that’s the reason I grew up this way

                   Not even my own name

could

seem to stay

Maybe in the next decade I’ll escape

Or maybe Bella has sealed its fate

I wonder what Isabella would create