Safer?

I will be no safer

If I hold this pain so tightly to me

That nothing else can enter

No ray of light

No possibility of delight

To eclipse the dark night of suffering

I am growing tired of

What a terrible shame

It is to know

That this, the broken heart

Breaks the heart of those

Who longed to love it

But were not allowed a way in

A possibility of being a friend

To the wild beast

Grown feral with the hurting

There is no safety in this

At all

And so it is I must fall

Deeper and deeper into vulnerability

Because in the end

This the only path of salvation

That will set my hurting heart

Free