Scott Simpson · Poetry
The Room Where It’s Safe
Use For Kindling · source pages 72
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The Room Where It’s Safe
Think of the person you trust
most at work. Think of walking
into a room and seeing their
face— how your breath remembers
what it means to belong.
In that room, ideas have
wings. In that room, your
silence is not suspicion, your
voice is not threat.
When you laugh, no one
collects it like evidence.
This is the room where
energy is saved, not spent
on surviving.
This is the room
where the good work lives.
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