There Is a Fructifying Sort of Grief

Music: Fugue in C# minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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There is a fructifying sort of grief That lays a floor beneath a cloistered scream; That visits torment frequently to leave A flower at the foot of barren stone. Do not turn from grief or measure sorrow, But let them water well your inner garden; Let your anguish melt into a passion That transforms pain to unrequited music. So might love visit loneliness as often As shadows shade the heart from utter light, Bringing in its darkness a reunion Between what was and what will always be.