The Next Right Thing

I've seen dark before, but not like this  

This is cold, this is empty, this is numb  

The life I knew is over, the lights are out  

Hello, darkness, I'm ready to succumb  

I follow you around, I always have  

But you've gone to a place I cannot find  

This grief has a gravity, it pulls me down  

But a tiny voice whispers in my mind  

You are lost, hope is gone  

But you must go on 

And do the next right thing  

Can there be a day beyond this night? 

I don't know anymore what is true 

 I can't find my direction, I'm all alone  

The only star that guided me was you  

How to rise from the floor?  

But it's not you I'm rising for  

Just do the next right thing  

Take a step, step again 

It is all that I can to do  

The next right thing  

I won't look too far ahead 

 It's too much for me to take  

But break it down to this next breath, this next step  

This next choice is one that I can make  

So I'll walk through this night  

Stumbling blindly toward the light  

And do the next right thing  

And, with it done, what comes then?  

When it's clear that everything will never be the same again 

Then I'll make the choice to hear that voice and do the next right thing