HI RV,
This poem touches a chord and resonates to an experience of brokenness in my distant, youthful past. I read this as a love poem, specifically a heartbreak poem. The poet seems to suffer from guilt in the failed relationship.
Though I am not as gifted a poet as you, I remember writing this poem during a deep low in my untethered days.
My heart has a dark shadowLet me not run anymore
For I've covered enough distance
Trading passion for another passion
In a Sysiphean struggle that sees the shadow
Expanding rather than receding
With every place I go
Then I'll still have a place
That's not engulfed in any shadow
Where I can turn back to face the shadow
That makes my heart seek love
But doesn't know how to give it back
Because impenetrable, it can love only itself
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