Security Blanket

 

I rest in the shadow of your warmth

A distance found safely

Near enough

Far enough

For the impenetrable fortress

Of my solitude

Just enough to let me know

You’re there

And enough to let me know

I’m alone

 

Just when I think

I’ve felt enough of isolation

I wrap its security blanket

Around me

All the tighter

A protection weakly hiding

The delicacy of myself

The fragile precariousness of my nature

Trapped at the peak of the mountain

With only the winds of change

To balance who I am

 

It takes so little for me

To lose my grip

A second to destroy the tensile balance

Imagined for

Hoped for