06 November, 2025

The Safe Place


The app said, close your eyes and breathe,
find where your heart feels safe to be.
She wondered what that place could mean,
a thought unformed, yet softly seen.

She closed her eyes, the noise grew thin,
and silence wrapped her from within.
No arms, no words, no borrowed grace —
just breath becoming her own space.

Where thoughts would rest, not seek, not chase,
where stillness wore a gentle face.
She found, beneath her ribcage deep,
the quiet place she longed to keep.

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