Security Blanket

I write a blanket statement

To ensure its mass appeal

As a trite generalization

To cover how I feel

All the bridges have been burnt

And the foundation that we built

Has a crack in it: my persistence

To push away the guilt

I don't know why I'm so reticent

Towards everything around me

I just want an even keel

Now my feelings are profoundly

Under felt it's underwhelming

There's no telling what's out there

If I'm always so worried about

Improbable problems arising

I should not care so much

And life would just evolve in

A way where everyday

I'm elated by my involvement in

Life

Instead of decapitated

By my resolve that says

I must stay at home

Far away from the lime

Light

Alone on the brink

Thinking too much of fame

So I'm stuck in a rut

All because I'm afraid

To awake in the night

Beneath the blanket in pain

With about as many answers

As the chances I take