It Is True That Safe is Safer


It is true that safe is safer

and the danger's in the risk,

but what is there without

the risk except safer?


There could not be love

'cause love requires

risking everything

and everything's not safer.


But everything is everything

and who would risk it all?

Only those that love and know

that love is risking all.



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