Nice work with the form and the message of your words Austin. At times we have to embrace sorrow and despair or else it will destroy us.

This in my opinion is one of the hardest forms to master. Only thing I saw that may be wrong, shouldn't the first line of the first stanza be identical to the first line of the rest of the stanzas? you have death in the first stanza, & then the others are despair. Other than that really nice job.