The sky said I am watching to see what you can make out of nothing I was looking up and I said I thought you were supposed to be doing that the sky said Many are clinging to that I am giving you a chance I was looking up and I said I am the only chance I have then the sky did not answer and here we are with our names for the days the vast days that do not listen to us
W. S. Merwin, like most poets, knew a thing or two. Here's a good quote of his, suitable for these times:
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.