Antidote for the Broken Hearted?

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

but thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

English playwright and poet William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, often titled Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, is one of the best-known of his 154 sonnets. The poet purportedly compares his beloved to the summer season, and argues that his beloved is better and she will live on forever through the words of the poem. How true is it I wonder that a loved one can live on forever and what good is it if it does? Take for instance someone who has been broken hearted for loving someone too much. The poem perhaps would make him or her even more attached to something that is unattainable and would pain him or her even more. Perhaps, if one is broken hearted, one then should take note of the ten kinds of foulness: the bloated, the livid, the festering, the cut-up, the gnawed, the scattered, the hacked and scattered, the bleeding, the worm-infested, and a skeleton. These are among some of the objects for meditation in Buddhism which I often find strange but perhaps they rid one of attachment and could be an antidote forf the broken hearted...