<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;">I Am not Safe</p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">I am not safe, my children, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">you are right, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">I am foolish, I take too many risks! </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">An ir</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">repressible</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> old lady, probably,</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">an unreliable mother, maybe,</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a wild creature without culture, oh yes,</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">an uncivilized visitant, that too,</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">an unlikely warrior, a naive dreamer, an ignorant moujik, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">and all of it. . . but just maybe.</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"> </p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">I want to tell of the safety I have found:</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">when I trust the universe, the universe trusts me to be safe.</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">My safety can only be measured</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">by the amount of faith I put into my next step, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a casual act to me, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a foolish one to many.</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">My safety resides only in the trust I put </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">into what is presented to me, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">on a road that reveals itself as I go </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">when I enter the Mystery,</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a path I follow knowing that I don’t know </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">but that my foot knows. . . every inch of the way.</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">If I don’t see obstacles, obstacles will not appear</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">even when they are pointed to me.</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Some say I am foolish, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">others that I am braver than most, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">but bravery has no measure. </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">When others go to the very end of their limits, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">the amount of courage it takes them is the same as mine </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">when I go to the end of mine.</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">There no longer is any other. </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">You are right, I am out of my mind, </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">but out of my mind is where I want to be</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">for it confers safety to my heart</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">and two hearts placed close to one another </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">soon come to beat in unison. </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Together, we are in no danger</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">for danger like sin can never exist </font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">in a world where everything fits.</font></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br><br></p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"> </p><p class="western" style="direction: ltr; widows: 2; orphans: 2; line-height: 18.559999px; margin-bottom: 0.11in; background: none; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><br><br></p></body></html>