When You Are Safe

a poem

All I know what to do
Is fight when there is trouble.
Gentle is heartfelt,
But an illusion.
”Let’s watch a movie?”
”I’d like that,
I’ll guard the exit.”

I’ll be lonely,
when you are safe.
I’ll no longer have a place
in your world.

All I know what to do
is fight—
When there is trouble.
There is no trouble.
Not at the moment.