Written by HisSiren, "Confusion" is a speaker's open questioning of their own pain and of the person who has come to help with it. It begins with a feeling of being stuck in an "unending loop," then asks whether the hurt can be ended, and by whom. The speaker admits something uncomfortable: they may be keeping the pain around as proof they are alive, and they even "kind of like it now."
Then the poem turns. Pain is replaced by pleasure when the partner makes them feel something, and the speaker wonders how that is possible when they feel "scarred and bruised" inside. They also admit they keep bringing up their past, perhaps to measure how good the partner is by comparison with "him."
The mood is raw, hesitant, and tender. The repeated questions make it sound like thinking out loud, and the final question, about whether they deserve this love, leaves the speaker caught between hope and self-doubt.