Dangerous People: Are You One?

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The most dangerous people want to keep you safe,

Their armor and their fences become your cage.

We need a certain safety, yes, that much is true,

But “safety” can be worse than being locked in a zoo.

 

Beware of protection, it can cost you much more,

And the safety you’re getting can close many doors.

 

The defensive one shrinks when they feel criticized,

Curiosity dropped, vulnerability denied.

They damage the bond that they're trying to save,

Their fortress of ego, a self-made cave.

 

Beware of protection, it can cost you much more,

And the safety you’re getting can close many doors.

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The overprotecting parent means well, no doubt,

But shielding their child forgoes life’s walkabouts.

No free-range stumbling, no fall, no repair,

Just perfectly padded and too scared to dare.

 

Beware of protection, it can cost you much more,

And the safety you’re getting can close many doors.

 

"Until death do we part" sounds noble and grand,

But clinging to permanence muddies our stand.

You tolerate, settle, and quietly decay,

The safest of prisons you declared on that day.

 

Beware of protection, it can cost you much more,

And the safety you’re getting can close many doors.

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Fear of rejection keeps your phone in your hand,

Undialed and silent, your life smaller than planned.

Those offers unshared, those knocks never made,

Protection from those risks, a cost dearly paid.

 

Beware of protection, it can cost you much more,

And the safety you’re getting can close many doors.

 

Governments protect with a heavy-armed fist,

And all of that horror and damage gets kissed.

Every war waged was waged in the name,

Of safety and homeland, the protectors' claim.

 

Beware of protection, it can cost you much more,

And the safety you’re getting can close many doors.