Is It Safe

After many years, 
I think
I'm safe now

To paraphrase,
I think I'm safe,
therefore I am,
yet am I?

I ask myself,
is being safe
knowing that
there's nothing 
to fear?

Or is it
simply
knowing
what you fear?

There's always 
something to 
fear, so it can't
be that there's
nothing

And knowing 
your fear
is not nothing,
but  it's not
the same as
being safe 

Maybe,
being safe
is knowing 
that you've stood in
the cold dark shadow
of your fear
and yet,
you still
stand

And yet, 
I ask my safe self, 
if I stand again
in the cold of 
that dark shadow,
would I still be?

Safe?

darkfearfree verse

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