What do I need?

Who am I without you?

What do I need to feel safe and secure?

As though I can breathe

Isn’t it really up to me?

How do I cope when you tell me

I am the source of your happiness?

Surely we are here to help

And show the light to others

But when does this become smother love?

Or the kind of love that has an agenda?

Sometimes its hard to remember

This life can be safe for me

When I trust myself

Its only when I cried today reading out the words

About how unsafe I felt in life before

That my tears showed me

A profound underlying truth

And then what happens to risk

As well as

A sense of adventure?

At times lately

I come to know myself best

When honest

And fully received

Even if my worth does not rest

On that

And sometimes I even feel my heart and soul

Dance and skip a beat

When you and I share our common take

On reality

And it seems to me now

There is a sense of peace that can only come

From knowing myself well

And taking the risk to trust

Knowing the outcome of such

Will give me answers to all of the questions

I harbor here

In silence