Name: Safehouse
Duration: P00H02M12S
Description: Written at 3:00 am in thirty minutes, Safehouse is Anna Brooks's best lyrical work to date.

Safehouse

from Pitch Black Noise by Anna Brooks

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Written at 3:00 am in thirty minutes, Safehouse is Anna Brooks's best lyrical work to date.

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Safehouse
By Anna Brooks

I made a safe house
out of darkness
Holding clutching pillows all alone.
I hid, writing,
musing, fighting,
cast in very narrow lighting
writing it all on my own.

I sat shrouded in a fortress
made of sticks and willow stones
buried deep in sheets and blankets,
blindness shielding
healing bones.

This time of year I really do not know me.
And while I’m here I’m only what they show me.
I do not know me.
I do not know me.

I built a safe house
in my family’s home,
I hid and escaped
for want and need
to replace a perfect world,
with one of my own.

I built a safe house
out of glass shelves,
selling rings and ugly things,
a pretty puppet,
you can't see the strings.

I made a safe house
in the mask on my own face,
growing sweat beads
between the pores
of fake and
misplaced.

I made a safe house
inside myself,
though a hummingbird heart
can only beat
so strong, so steady
and so fast,
I made mine
from scratch.

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from Pitch Black Noise, released August 28, 2014

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Anna Brooks Ann Arbor, Michigan

Anna Brooks is a lyricist and musician who writes from the perspective of a biologist.

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