Daily Prompt: Safety First

Share the story of a time you felt unsafe.

Photographers, artists, poets: show us SAFETY.

When you banged at my door I felt helpless.

I wept hidden underneath the covers of my fears.

I caught butterflies of dreams and moths of despair that flew around the tiny space of my universe.

I knew my presence was like a rotten splinter of wood pinching your side.

I was a mistake. A glitch on your otherwise perfect existence.