Ebonee Grace's poem is about living through a mental health crisis and coming out the other side. The speaker looks back on a time when their own mind felt like it was breaking apart. The imagery is violent: walls "bleeding red," screams echoing, sounds racing through the veins like pain. The mind becomes a house under attack, and the speaker is trapped inside it. The line about death peeking "through the window" suggests, judging by the imagery, that the speaker came close to giving up on life.
What stands out is that the poem doesn't pretend everything is fixed. A "dull ache" remains, a reminder of what happened. Still, the tone shifts from terror to stubborn hope. The speaker chooses to "live on to fight" and promises that peace will come. The final line, "And so will you," turns to the reader directly. The mood moves from raw and painful to quietly encouraging, like a hand offered to someone who is still struggling.