Safe House

 Written June 1, 2025, Rev 6/3/2025

Going back to my pillow fort, 

a little burned, a little skinned,

also a little happy but scared, 
it's your dare now, so,

I dare you.
Share with me
All of it,
Pour it all on me.

Double-dare you.

Why do you keep hitting my heart,
over and over mercilessly,
pounding, revving me all racecar-like
Pulsing,  start of
an adventure.
I want in,
Beckon me,  invite me into.
I promise not to touch,  tickle,
Squeeze too much.

I'm showing wide open,  

but you,
You hide behind those shadows too.

Just pull back that membrane
and Know, 
I'll nibble gently,  but will
never let go.
Unless you make me.
 
Smash my face against mattress,
Yet you,
Ignite the fire that
speaks to us thru
The whispers,  images of
Texts thru the night,
My strength long gone, 
Dare I give up this fight....

Sunburned and soul burned, 
yet both willingly so....

Where do I go
To release all this burn
This fire,  lava.
let me unlearn
How to feel,  think, and know, 
How to glow

Instead follow my heart down the road
Less taken
Less defiled,
Less mistaken
Make me face
My deepest truths
Face to face,
Touch,  gasp,  clasp,
Hope that it's ever enough
For this life
For this day,
I give,
Sacrifice,
Splay my chest wide,
Pulsing with uncertainty,
Pride long abandoned,
For the real,
Tell me,  if you would dare,
How do you feel....

Heading inside to find my pride,
And to run and hide
Run away to that dark
Corner of my mind,
Where nobody will be unkind
To the gyrating kink of my mind
And I'll sit,  cuddle,  stare
Off into the bare cover of night
For that's where my unuttered dreams
Take flight
Flickering like candlelight
Before being snuffed out.....

So, back to my 

safe snuggly pillow fort

I go. 

To hide,  scream,  

blush unseen,  

cry me a runny nose,

exhale,  retreat,  

regroup

with my cookies, 

my tunes, 

and glitter slime.