Maybe you will never exist.

  I do not know how to teach you all the things you need to know

  I don’t want you to fear the world

  I don’t want you to fear men

  So how do I teach you safety?

  If I tell you the things that they have done to me

  You might cower away from all men

  Because it is so hard to tell

  The safe ones from the unsafe

  If I tell you about the man my father told me was safe

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  My brother told me were safe

  My mother told me were safe

  How they were all wrong

  Will you ever be able to trust men?

  If I tell you about the love I have seen

  And how everytime I look closely

  The cracks of infidelity are there

  Even in the most obviously in love

  As if it is simply inevitable

  Will you ever be able to love freely?

  My mother taught me safety

  As all mothers must

  She taught me about family

  And what they did to her

  And it amazes me now

  That my family trusts family so freely with their babies

  How could I ever trust anyone with you?

  I think about you with awe and wonder

  A gift of joy and light

  Then I look up into the real world

  And I see that nowhere is safe for you

  Noone is safe for you

  Nothing is safe for you

  Maybe it is better if you never exist.