Ashes of Life

        

Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike; 

Eat I must, and sleep I will, - and would that night were here! 

But ah! - to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike! 

Would that it were day again! - with twilight near! 

Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do; 

This or that or what you will is all the same to me; 

But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through, - 

There's little use in anything as far as I can see. 

Love has gone and left me, - and the neighbours knock and borrow, 

And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse, - 

And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow 

There's this little street and this little house. 

-          Edna St. Vincent Millay