Sonnet 146

I don’t completely understand what this sonnet is trying to say, but what I get out of it is that it is no good to spend worthless time and money on earthly things when someday at the point of your death, you will no longer be able to hold on to those earthly things, including your body. The only thing that gets to leave when you die is your soul, so you should spend more time nurturing your soul and developing yourself as a person than gathering material things, because your soul is all that you will be able to preserve when you die.