Tired

No — Do not ask me to be wise.
I have no thoughts at all.
Only, that Life is swift, and flies
Shadow-like, strange, and small.

Only, that I am less than dew,
And frailer than a fern.
I have forgotten all I knew
Of certainty. To learn

This much is harder than I guessed.
I will not pass for wise.
I am too tired for a quest;
Too sleepy for surmise!