Why can’t they see
when they tell me,
all of them,
to stay safe?
Stay home, stay safe.
Away from the virus that sucks the life
out of the human race
I so adore.
Stay safe, they say,
within the flimsy walls of home.
And yet a virus deadly
rages on
undetected
within the very walls they say
will hold me.
They do not see
these walls are fractured by
anger, spread
blame, spread
shame, spread
along social media currents
until no one is safe at home.
And so I say to them
I shall stay home,
safe,
within the only safe home I know to be
true.
The home of me.
And there I will build a bright new world
from the inside out.
brooke-cutler.com 
5 replies on “Safe”
Nice! Great poem Brooke. Hope it isn’t “too personal” for you. There’s always the phone to reach out to friends or FaceTime if you need to connect with someone. Just because you have to “stay in” doesn’t mean you have to “isolate” 😉
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All good Jason. 🙂 I just had my cranky pants on this morning when I came across the Joy of Twitter. (Wink, eye roll :P) We (me and Twitter) have a hate hate relationship, given it seems like it’s usually used as a great big trolling space. It just doesn’t feel right to me to be fighting each other-on any day- let alone at a time like this. Hence, my feelings that the hatred social media sometimes spreads feels like an added Virus to be dealing with at this point. I, personally, am feeling pretty okay at the moment. 🙂 Thanks for your support and encouragement! 🙂 xx
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I live in a Twitter bubble I think.. I only follow people and topics that won’t make me angry. It usually works out okay. Glad to know you are doing “pretty okay” 😉
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I prefer to stay away altogether, but sometimes it finds me in my emails! A girl can’t win. Ha ha ha
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Haha… yeah I understand
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