I Just Don't Know Anymore

The stars once whispered secrets in the dark, Now silence hangs like frost upon the trees— No tender sign, no ever-burning spark, Just shadows drifting over cold distant seas. I held a truth once, small and clear and bright, A jewel I found in dusk’s uncertain light— But now the day dissolves into the gental dark night, And I am lost in shores of shifting sand. The faces smile, but none of them are real, The words they say ring hollow in my ears— What once could wound no longer makes me feel, The wells are dry, I have outlasted tears. I used to sing when spring was in the air— Now even birds seem strangers in the sky. Is this despair, or only a mute that can't hear, Of something too worn down to even cry? I just don’t know. And that must be enough, in life.