What Do You Say? (sonnet)

What do you say when the words are all gone?
How can you sing when your life's out of tune?
Can anything be right after the wrongs?
What can you build out of a life in ruins?
How should I feel when I still love, but can't
Be with a drunk man who will never change?
I wish I could give up now, but I shan't.
There's nothing I can even rearrange.
I had the dream with the white picket fence,
The kids in the yard, and the normal life.
How could I have been so blind and so dense
That I would find myself a monster's wife?
Sometimes I miss the good days in between;
But I don't miss the usual hellish scene.