"SAFE?"

Have I told you that comfort zone is temporary?

Go ahead, call me crazy.

Have I told you that a safe space is an illusion?

It’s our own creation.

It’s just like us.

It doesn’t really last.

You claim that women are safest at home,

but many are assaulted in their private rooms

by family who should be protecting them

and these women are forced into silence

in the name of family honour?

Don’t you get their horror?

The houses of worship have been tainted by blood

prayers taken by bullets

Nobody had suspected the monster

entering the room

One of them even greeted: “Hello, brother.”

Is anywhere else safe?

Isn’t it obvious?

It’s the endangered kindness

slowly losing its existence

How to revive to keep it alive?

Can we restore peace

in the only world we live in,

instead of exchanging hatred,

offering no solutions?

R.