Solid ground pulls away
And I’m doomed to lose footing
Urged
To surrender my all

I quake from the inside
Teetering and bracing
For the sure agony that looms

As eternity
Beckons, shrill
From inside my waning treads

I stagger and sway
Beyond all certainty
And yearn to remain
For a mere instant longer

Too soon
The dark prevails
And I fall away
As time rolls along