A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

I interpreted the poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne as being about those who give up on life when love leaves them, and those who breathe still in assurance that love will find them again. For example, "While some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say, no,"(Donne,801). The speaker bids those to not despair, bad things do fall upon us in our lives', but love is far more outlasting than pain. "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move...moving of the earth brings harms and fears,"(Donne,802). The speaker then goes on to address the hardships or road blocks of love, like distance or absence, though it may take away what excites and fascinates love, love can withstand if desired. Two people can be unified under one love, which I believe is the meaning conveyed especially through the use of similes. "If they be two, they are two so as stiff twin compasses are two,"(Donne,802). The poem starts out showing hesitance to love, reasons for denying it, and then explores the beauty of love's unification and both lovers following each other wherever the other may go.