Safe?

May be I am better off

Just living here quietly all alone

Maybe God gives me all I need

Within these four walls

Within my sacred home

Maybe it’s really a jungle out there 

A strange place

Where I don’t know what I will find

And people can often be so unkind

Where I struggle to be seen

And feel truly free

Maybe here all quiet inside

Is the cosiest place I can find

And maybe just for now

Its where I want to hide

This warm cocoon

So filled with light

The only place

That my heart finds it feels

Truly safe

Fully alive 

But at times it truly is lonely here

I long for the embrace of a friend or family

A call that would recognise

I am alive

And then my heart descends 

From heaven to hell

And I feel the hollowness in my chest

In a world bereft of physical connection

And yet I know these feelings too will pass

Because life is often just this dance

Of togetherness, longing, despair,

Suffering, joy

Elation and separation