There Are Days

"There are days," he told me, "Most days, if the truth be told, when I am so uninvested in life, not even a spectator since spectators care about what they watch."  I've had days like that, but others too.  It sounded such a frightful burden.  He had nothing to look forward to, nothing but more of the same.  More burdensome days, days he trues not to share lest we be infected by the pain of them.  Protect us, Lord, from such terrible sadness.