Six times the speaker asks the same question, "Was it enough?", and never gets a clear answer. The poem reads like someone looking back on a relationship that has ended, or is ending, and wondering whether love alone was able to hold it together. The speaker admits the love was real, yet also describes pretending to feel nothing, which hints at a painful gap between what they felt and what they showed.
The scenes move from hurt to tenderness. The speaker says goodbye and the other person cries. Later, when "everything turns dust," that person still holds their hand, and when the speaker feels alone, they come along. In the last stanza the loved one lets go, apparently so the speaker can be happy. The poem's wording is a little rough in places, but the feeling comes through: regret, gratitude, and a lingering ache. The repeated question gives the mood a quiet, unresolved sadness, as if the speaker is still asking it long after the love has gone.