Rope Drag

Self arrest
No one's coming
Hope is not a plan

No foe to best
Without place to rest
Grip on life, stalling

Darkened trees
Gaze as i fade
On earthen ground
My end has been made

Without and within
There's no time
One way out
I will not bend

Refusal to submit
To every trial, lines the way
The only recourse
Force of will, under sky of gray