"human shield" 

To the best of your ability:

Protect me from my night terrors,
bouncing cats, clattering pans,
honking cars and hollering neighbors.

Protect me from discomfort, wetness,
dryness, stillness, motion,
heat and rain, light and dark.

Protect me from disappointment, expectations,
assumptions, cliches and generalizations,
illusions and myths.

Protect me from regret and irony,
danger and terror,
loss and hunger.

Protect me from truths.