Last Ditched Effort

The fight is better,
the encouragement is coming.
The thoughts that shouldn't
be there are running.
The weight that held
me down and back,
that fetter is lighter
and beginning to lack.
It lacks acceleration,
it lacks traction
to gain the speed
to take the action.
It can't get its footing
long enough to trip
me or my momentum
or to cause a dip.
Its lights are slowly
dimming in its twilight
as soon it will say
its final goodnight.
It is now throwing
its last ditched effort
to a spirit that won't
let it get the better.
Its hopes are done,
its goal is failed
in my soul's triumph
that to none will pale.