Flicker through the Frost

How do you cope when your hope fades away?

How do you try when each cry raids a way

You could escape,

Leaves each path agape,

A hole you can’t crawl out of?

How do you ask for help when each task for help

Is worse than the problem you started with?

I hang on tight,

Knuckles turning white

As I squint at the light

In the distance.

Try to be tough,

Pray it is enough

To stay on the path of

Least resistance.

Like a candle upon a deck

In the middle of a snowstorm,

My efforts soon exhaust.

The flame sputters, spatters,

Battered and bothered,

Fighting to flicker through the frost.

How do you move when improvement evades you?

How do you fight when the night just persuades you

To sit and rest?

You’ve done your best,

But the monster can’t be won.

How do you survive when the things thrive

On your fear and your dear hope?

You can’t beat the beast;

Grendel will always feast,

But fighting is the least

That you can do.

Through the mud and rain,

Like an iron-clad Dane,

Push through the pain

And power through.

Like a candle upon a deck

In the middle of a snowstorm,

My efforts soon exhaust.

The flame sputters, spatters,

Battered and bothered,

Fighting to flicker through the frost.

The wax soon wanes

The fuse’ll fizzle

As the light drains

In the constant drizzle.

How do you cope when your hope fades away?

Like a candle upon a deck

In the middle of a snowstorm,

My efforts soon exhaust.

The flame sputters, spatters,

Battered and bothered,

Fighting to flicker through the frost.