Time does not bring relief.

Anna says - I found this poem last year when my lover left me. In some ways this poem says the opposite of the Derek Walcott poem above - It says time does not bring relief. But what it really says is that love lasts. And that is a comfort to me. I have lost the man I loved  - but I am grateful for all the love I still feel for him , even if it is painful to feel it. The relationship may be over - but I know my feelings were real.  

Time Does Not Bring Relief 
by Edna St Vincent Millay 

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied   
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!   
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;   
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,   
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;   
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.   
There are a hundred places where I fear   
To go,—so with his memory they brim.   
And entering with relief some quiet place   
Where never fell his foot or shone his face   
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”   
And so stand stricken, so remembering him