I will NOT be your safe place, because growing up, there was, NO safe place provided for me by my parents, and, because I lacked it, I wouldn’t know how to provide a safe place for someone else, including myself!
I will NOT be your safe place, because although I’d acquired the ability to give out unconditional positive regard (that’s Mr. Rogers, Carl???), I still don’t feel compelled, to show that to you, because why should I, huh? You weren’t even around for me when I was growing up, and now you’d grown old and gray, you’d what??? Expect me to, take care of you??? Get REAL here, everything IS a two-way street, a give-and-take, well, I’d given and you’d, already, taken from me, and now, I’d, stopped!
someplace like this??? Photo from online…
I will NOT be your safe place, because you weren’t MINE when I needed you the most! Where the F*** were you, when I became SUICIDAL back in the day, huh? Did you even know, that I’d ATTEMPTED (and unfortunately, ALL my attempts were, BUST!) suicide, so many times I’d lost count? And on top of that, you’d, MURDERED (it’s still NOT involuntary MANSLAUGHTER, y’all!!!) my DEAD Emily, and all of it because you were ABUSED and NEGLECTED by your own god DAMN FUCKING (don’t pardon me this time!) parents, and, who the FUCK (see previous parenthesis!) cared about me, when I got SEXUALLY molested by HIS dead mother, huh? Nobody, that’s W-H-O!
I will NOT be your safe place, you can’t fall here, there’s no GIANT mattress, I’d removed it, way before you got here, and, if you’re still, DUMB enough to take that god DAMN leap, then, you will end, with your necks, BROKEN, and you’d be DEAD………
providing the emotional supports, not my artwork…
So, you can see, I got ZERO need to be someone’s SAFE place, because I don’t gotta, I don’t wanna, and, there AIN’T NO WAY in H-E-L-L, anybody’s gonna MAKE me, be someone’s SAFE place…
Life, the Obstacle Course 