Nothing I Do Seems Of Great Importance Poem by Shalom Freedman

NOTHING I DO SEEMS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE

Nothing I do seems of great importance
I cannot write anything of significance
I am still alive and still hanging on
Doing what I always did
But it is not the same
The hope the concentration the energy the real work
Is all gone
And I write one little thing
And then jump to another
Without it all really cohering into something very meaningful
I am more pretending
Than really doing something
And knowing it
I am in quiet despair
I do not know the way out of.