PoEm: Remember

Remember

by Christina Rosetti

Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

This poem makes me so sad. Its really suppose to be a little uplifting. this woman is telling her husband not to be sad, to move on when she dies. She is telling him it is ok to be sad and remember the good times, but in the end you are still living. Keep going...