Sure you become
a sceptic if
only by revealing
your religion
people burn you
sure you become
a food keeper
sharing nothing
if all you had for decades
was just enough to save
your family
surely you skip
a beat when you hear
a car hurling
when something in you
remembers the sound
that a bomb shell makes
exploding
sure you adopted
all sorts of safe-guard mechanisms
and deeply and deeply
implanted
them in you and what followed

And I only
am here
alive
because of you
because of that

and am responsible
to see you
appreciate
and free you
my dear friend