You look me dead in the eye
A piercing stare from which I cannot hide
You ask without having to speak
What it is I eternally seek
What do you need, oh little girl
My answer dumbfounds and your head begins to whirl
For as simple and strange as my answer may seem
You knew not my mind; you never got a true gleam
'A safe place', were my words
So fragile and bare
You caught me in a moment of true-feeling-telling so rare
'A safe place,' I continue
'Where I won't have to hide every emotion bitter but true
A place where Im loved, flaws in every pore
Not as in now, where it's my shadow you so adore
Do you know where this place is
You're silent and staring, cold as a statue
I know you imagine I say these things to hurt you
And that, and that alone
Is why I keep silent
My honesty would do damage it is only violent
So I wake from my day-dream and put on that smile
Nothing I whisper while sinking inside
Someday Ill find that safe place
And Ill no longer hide.