Why have you made life so intolerable <br />And set me between four walls, where I am able <br />Not to escape meals without prayer, for that is possible <br />Only by annoying an attendant. And tonight a sensual <br />Hell has been put on me, so that all has deserted me <br />And I am merely crying and trembling in heart <br />For Death, and cannot get it. And gone out is part <br />Of sanity. And there is dreadful Hell within me, <br />And nothing helps, forced meals there have been and electricity <br />And weakening of sanity by influence <br />Thats dreadful to endure, and there is orders <br />And I am praying for death, death, death <br />And dreadful is the indrawing or out-breathing of breath <br />Because of the intolerable insults put on my whole soul <br />Of the soul loathed, loathed, loathed of the soul. <br />Gone out every bright thing from my mind. <br />All lost that ever God himself designed. <br />Not half can be written of cruelty of man, on man, <br />Not often such evil guessed as between Man and Man.<br /><br />Ivor Gurney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-god-6/
