Logan Brosemer's "Connection" is about an unusually deep emotional bond, one where you can feel what another person feels. The speaker opens by asking whether the reader has ever known this, and calls it both a blessing and a curse. The poem then follows the ocean image it builds: when things are good, happiness lifts you like gentle waves, but when the relationship starts to change, the water churns and the light slowly dims.
When the relationship breaks, the speaker is flooded with the other person's pain from morning until night. What makes it worse is the guilt. The speaker feels responsible for that pain, yet has to stay silent because the other person wants it that way. Sleep becomes a strange mix of relief and dread, since it is the only time the feelings ease, and the only link left.
The mood is raw, heavy, and lonely. The repeated opening question, returning at the end, feels like the speaker still searching for someone who understands.