Sway's not the Way

Me breaking down,
Not a pretty sight to behold.
You'd better step down,
As the story unfolds.

Somebody simply stepped on my toes.
And cried a bloody foul.
Ironic I did not consider him a foe,
But plainly let him go.

What can I do
When circumstances are stacked against me
Sapping the life out of me?

Can I say no?
I doubt so.
Life is not meant to be so.

I used to live it cold,
Let my woes go untold.

Now I have found a new way
To cope with the fiesty knot;
That is not to let myself sway
In the face of this curdling,bloody clot