The Safety of Your Arms

Lauren Persky

Could it be how you give me the biggest of hugs after weeks apart?

The way you squeeze me tight after a long day?

Or when you reach out your arm to tell me I'm not alone?

Could it be how you gently trace my body as we lay you and me?

The way you hold me down to tickle me, just to hear my laugh?

Or how you pull me close after a bad dream?

Yes I think it's all of those things.

But I also I think it's the way I can hide from the world with you as my protector

That nothing bad can happen to me as long as I am in the safety of your arm.