I Cannot Say Much Of Anything

I cannot say much of anything- The weight is too heavy to lift- The hill is too high to walk up- Everything is more difficult now- And I bring with it the grief For so many no longer here. Yet I am still here- And will step by step go on As best and as long as I can- The road has been long- It is still before me Though it does not stretch out into the distance As it once did- I walk on slowly And I look ahead So as not to fall But often in my thought It is not the road ahead But the one behind I still walk on.