Poetry Analysis: Author's Prayer Help

[Ding Dong]

I need to analyze this poem for my English class but I'm just not getting it.

[b]Author’s Prayer[/b]
[i]By Ilya Kaminsky[/i]

If I speak for the dead, I must leave
this animal of my body,

I must write the same poem over and over,
for an empty page is the white flag of their surrender.

If I speak for them, I must walk on the edge
of myself, I must live as a blind man

who runs through rooms without
touching the furniture.

Yes, I live. I can cross the streets asking “What year is it?”
I can dance in my sleep and laugh

in front of the mirror.
Even sleep is a prayer, Lord,

I will praise your madness, and
in a language not mine, speak

of music that wakes us, music
in which we move. For whatever I say

is a kind of petition, and the darkest
days must I praise.

What does it mean? :v:

[Zarjk]

Try taking it one line at a time, mate.

[MightyLOLZOR]

I wish I could help you, but "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is stuck in my head right now.

[Alien_23]

Sorry but I can't help. Classic poems make my head hurt.

[Sundowner]

are we talking just analysis of the language and form? or do you have to take into account context and critical viewpoints?

[Ding Dong]

Thanks guys, but it's too late. Already turned it in. And those of you saying you can't help:

If you can't help, don't post please.