Extrinsick Forces

Extrinsic forces

Embattled on all fronts

No more choices

Attacked all at once

Surrounded on all sides

Of food and peace bereft

A poisoned arrow flies

Towards his last defence

Though he fall

He will not be cast down

He will rise, he will rise

He will stand

Daily battles

Trouble everywhere

Terror in the night

Nauseating fears

Permeating sickness

Ravaged life from limb

Odds are stacked against

To ever walk again

I once was young

Now I am old

I have watched them rise

And I have watched them fall

I have striven

But through it all

I’ve never seen the righteous forsaken

Though he fall

He will not be cast down

He will rise, he will rise

He will stand