Loving You Is Far Too Dangerous
It came with a hollow crack-
a widening wedge-
the fearful peering
at Hope's Edge;
at the pitifully small;
the fearful offering,
the tiny tiniest etch of a smile;
of the looking away
of the not wanting to see
or relate
to what was happening
when Love's Mote
pushes open
my Hope's creaky door
long closed;
isolated;
remote;
but you with a singe word
siren called
in gauzy white
and my squirreled soul
peered out
from it's bitter cold
trembling
from too much alcohol-infused
tattered dreams
hunched over the checkered table cloth
Desperately Wondering asking
'How can this woman love me.'
Worse;
I knew she did
and that served to coax
my wounded self to unwrap
its bandages in fear and loathing
against my own Terrified Will
which sought the light she was
but fearing fear and dread,
its voice saying
'Don't take the chance;
don't go'
'Opening that door'
the voice said
'might bring her light
but too loose your own dark within,
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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