My Own Worst Enemy
My Own Worst Enemy
I am.
I suppose others saw it
sooner than I ever could.
From a distance they whispered,
He's his own worst enemy.
These middle years are tough.
Life's disappointments mount.
There's now a ledger of losses
which can never be reconciled.
And no matter how much
I try and hold onto,
there's always more escaping
out my back door.
I've worked hard,
tried to do things right.
I fought and I fixed,
but life kept coming
wave after wave.
I'm tired of resisting,
forever living the cliché,
running against the wind,
paddling upstream.
My prayer is simple.
I ask for a community
to share this burden,
that I once truly thought
was mine alone to bear.
Beware of no man more than of yourself;
we carry our worst enemies within us.
~ Charles Spurgeon
