Love
Trap
I
am caught in a love trap and cannot break free.
I will be sacrificed, the struggle over.
The outcome has been known for a long time.
Still, I cannot help but resist.
My I doesn't want to die.
I am not prepared to be stripped bare
to my whimpering need for the Beloved.
Not prepared to be ravished by Love,
offering up my very substance
in an unknown transformation.
I am caught not only in this trap of God's
but by my willingness to be here.
You see, I long for the embrace
that will put me out of my misery,
long to be free of this confining self
which, as long as it lasts,
will not give up.
Struggle I must
until I am worn so thin
that there is no contest,
until I melt in the arms of my Beloved
surrendering all.
And then I shall see
that we set the trap together
so that we could be together
always.