A Safe Place to Be...

Oftentimes, our closest friends are our family.

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If there is one place where it's safe to be me...

It's in the presence of my precious family.

They will hear of my worries and struggles in life

They will hear how I can be a better mom and wife...

They'll get a family group e-mail at 4am

And a notice of a great sale at a quarter to ten...

They'll see my messy house and my dirty floors

They'll  hear me tell of health news galore...

They are my friends whether seventeen or thirty

Whether they married-in or were born on my journey...

Now, self-banned to the walls of this empty space

I find my confidants; self-mercy and self-grace.

Here, no one need hear what I have to say

So to sum it up - now this is the safe place.

Worries, health news, ramblings on and on...

I will hear myself; the voice is gone.

Now I can speak to an empty wall

A wall is now the safe place I have found.

The reality is...  It doesn't end here.

The wall hits a corner and I shed some tears

Perhaps I was oblivious

thinking somehow they'd want to hear...

or need to hear...

But it must have been one sided, I had too much to tell.

Too much advice to offer on improving sense of smell

and let me tell you about my eyelids because I could be dying

I've got advice on love and family and what's that... Are you sighing?

Well I can't wait to see you - can't hug from six feet apart...

And well you know this mom won't stop talking, I've got a GREAT BIG HEART!

If there's one place where I can find a friend

One place where it's safe to be me

Where you can be you

Tears and all

Where you'll find a soft shoulder to fall

Tell me your worries

Your hurts

and more

Come over, eat spaghetti

Lay on my floor...

I will stroke your hair while I listen to you

I might have an answer...

Or a hug...

If there's a place in this life where it's safe to just be...

Or to dream...  Or sing...  

Or...  Just be...

It's in the presence of our precious family.