Without the love,
where’s the safety?

Without the safety,
where’s the peace?

Without the peace,
how’s a victim

going to learn to handle grief?

Where’s the trust
without forgiveness?

Intimate knowledge,
without grace?

When darkness is
but looming shadow,

who will see the unmasked face?

Long death’s
a quick survival.

Long survival’s
countless deaths.

If air is free
but life’s a bargain,

money is power is money is breath.