Countless hours laying track

of promises unfulfilled.

What I'd do to get them back

for permission to be still.

Full speed on my ego's course,

charted with such precision.

Would I deny my remorse

at every indecision.

Certainty sure to betray - 

such enemies lie within!

Had I glimpsed the other way

for a sign of caving in.

Can a mere passenger steer

where steel engines have failed?

Sealed a crashing fate so drear

had I not been 

Derailed.