"The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift."
I love what is written between the parenthesis. It makes me wonder, why do I not write my dreams down on paper, because I seriously have some crazy dreams that no one in the world will ever know except me and the few friends that I tell. Anyways back to the poem, I feel like she was saying that sorrow brings grief and struggles but one can easily learn and grow and reap rewards from death and sorrow. It may seem like a "box full of darkness" but in it is a gift that may be even greater then the original thing that we lost. I believe this poem holds ideas about death as well as life lessons in general. Many times it seems that life can bring a gift along that does not look appealing but ends up being the greatest gift of all.
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