Life in hard times

You can't give it all up,
Hard as you may try,
I was told time & again ,
with hard looks and smiles wry.


You know, a sigh, a tear
Lives in your heart, here
You may cross mountains
But it all stays quite near.


In the aridity of your thoughts
dwell the seeds of your dreams
You may see the desert without
Within you grow the greens


Dont ask me the source
Or the sustaining spout
I may not know the answer
but life shall sprout


What you may see
May not be
What it is
What appears to the eye


Always beats me
As to why how
when and where
I may be never


Near the answer
Some questions
Many mysteries
of nature


That defy their
very own answer