Against the tide

Forced to face the other side
going at it the other way
from the opposite you direct your lines
and it piles against you like a river rapid
slowly piling up, heavier and heavier
and the sky falls down
as you fall deeper and deeper
onto the task that you were set out to do
and you lost track within a mere second
and there it is, the final moment
to decide which way you will go
to stay or to go
an equation unsolved
it crushes against you