Sweet Bear-Ables. Poem by Lonnie Hicks

Wrap me in my history
and I hope this does
not warp my future.

Wrap me in my hurts endured
and pray they don't contain me
and my healing.

Wrap me in sins
committed
against those deserving
and not deserving;
my mistakes.

Twirl me
in my ego
taint..

Flash those lights on me,
strobe- caught
guilty as charged.

Wrap me in my crazy love for you
where complete surrender offers.

Open the closed door
to find me crying desperately
as my soul weeps
for the loss
of you.

Wrap me
in
Enigma-Cloth
against the cold truths
which periodically
splash me.

Wrap me
in sweet love
for you
which makes all this
both
bearable
and unbearable;

if it were not
that when you go
as unbearable as that is

but is sweetly bearable
when you come back.

Wrap me in our Mystery
hidden
even from myself.