To Feel Safe Today

Look down! Say nothing! Walk past.

Make a wish your voice isn’t heard.

Filter your eyes through the headlines

and give the back pages a warm embrace.

Do not question! Be ignorant!

The guns rumble night and day.

Your fever pitch drowns in red pools of hurt

Oh! Give your pens a break.

Blend in, take it down a notch.

Your act of love is a sin for some eyes.

Be dazzled by your God and let

faith brush everything aside.

Wait! Do not believe in what you hear!

Open your door, get rid of whispers,

Cry out for help, lend a ear.

Perhaps, only you thought this way.

Maybe, you are not alone.