Bring That Cloak … said Paul

 
Bring that cloak… [i]   
for I cross horizons
far from the known
my sense of mission
only thing I own
 
Except for that sturdy
well-made cloak…
so thick and strong
against winds and soak
as I go along
 
When you come
bring that small piece of hearth
and world I knew,
the cost not its worth,
 – and some news of home, too
 
Christ chose us to send
to the ends of the earth
to deliver his word
we are the first
that his Body has heard
 
I will find my Lord
in every face and port
and other cloaks a-plenty
from every man and sort
as I do work at tenting
 
My old cloak will be lost
my spirit spring unbent,
when I reach the end
and I will have spent
all that I can spend 
 
(2000s) 


[i]   2 Timothy 4:13  –  “When you come, bring the cloak I left with Carpus in Troas, the papyrus rolls, and especially the parchments .…”