God strengthen me to bear myself; <br />That heaviest weight of all to bear, <br />Inalienable weight of care. <br /> <br />All others are outside myself; <br />I lock my door and bar them out <br />The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. <br /> <br />I lock my door upon myself, <br />And bar them out; but who shall wall <br />Self from myself, most loathed of all? <br /> <br />If I could once lay down myself, <br />And start self-purged upon the race <br />That all must run ! Death runs apace. <br /> <br />If I could set aside myself, <br />And start with lightened heart upon <br />The road by all men overgone! <br /> <br />God harden me against myself, <br />This coward with pathetic voice <br />Who craves for ease and rest and joys <br /> <br />Myself, arch-traitor to mysel ; <br />My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, <br />My clog whatever road I go. <br /> <br />Yet One there is can curb myself, <br />Can roll the strangling load from me <br />Break off the yoke and set me free<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-shall-deliver-me/
