batter my heart

Batter my heart, three personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new
I, like an unsurped tower, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but, oh, to no end
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend;
But is captive and proves weak or untrue.

Yet dearly I love you and would be loved fair;
But am betothed into your enemy;
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except that you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except that you ravish me.

-"Batter my Heart" by John Donne