Efforts.

It is a man's nature to scheme and plan but, what does he fail to understand?
The risk and inertia from within and without.
Slow to doubt, quick to regret.
Dark hours to lament.
All efforts forefit and it sits.
and it sits
and it sits.
and it sits.
Informed defeat, and too ignorant to retreat.
Push on to pull back.
Maybe in the next life.
I'll get some
slack.