Life Lessons Learned

Grief took me by the hand Lead where I didn't want to go Straight into the valley of tears That began to constantly flow Now that grief had acquainted me With sorrow in the vale of tears It seemed at eternal spring of weeping Was where I would constantly live Then grief brought me up the mount Where loved ones went before When escorted in this place The lessons to which exposed Seems now working my way back Changed forever from that meeting Grief an aquaintance I had spurned But now after the greeting I will never be the same Though given another hundred years Grief taught me more in a few short fears Than joy with all her pleasings