Safety
Nothing feels safe
      anymore

I need to be curled up
Under covers
To feel protected

Though I realize that covers are little protection
Against the Outside

And that no harm will come
Outside of the covers

Yet I do not feel safe
Unless I am withdrawn
      inside myself
Unless I can be covered
Unless I can bury
      my head

Nothing feels safe
      anymore
-11/22/96
3:47am