Velleity

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Winter mornings lacking impetus

Movement sluggish slow

Icy rain relentlessly

No wish to get up and go

 

Inertia weighing tediously

As if trapped beneath my porch

Neither in nor out untangling

Like flat batteries in a torch

 

I try to peal a happy feeling

But the skin of joy extorts

The cracking of cold fingernails

As the whole shebang contorts

Oxford English Dictionary

Velleity: 

A wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action: the notion intrigued me but remained a velleity