Safety Zone

Pulling away from my safety zone

Placing myself right there next to you

This I would do to feel your pain

Endure your dark despair

I would take your hand-hold on tight

Feeling each of your bones within

Endure the fire of your fear

Calm the shaking of your sinews

I mind not to do this for you

If this is the only way

To be able to shed some light for you

Infuse hope within you

Would you like this?

If you say NO then what am I to do?

There is something stopping me

Not within myself but maybe within you

Tell me what should I do?

I feel the breakage coming

Carnage terrible and fierce

You keep pushing me away

Beyond your reach –beyond mine

Is this what you want?

Reaching out to you

I see and feel the need

Do I follow my heart?

Or should my mind rule?

I have finally seen deep inside of you

The battle raging within you

An angel on one shoulder calming you

While the devil twists his tri-fork into you

Is this a chapter about to end?

Or the beginning of something new

It is a fine line drawn here

A battle in which the casualty is us

Pulling away from my safety zone

Placing myself right there next to you

Your pain has now become mine

Explosion of pain finally released

No more questions-it is done

We have traded places now

You are safe-no more fear

I have died in your place

© 2010 14 july/cb