Larry's "Fade" is about being left behind after someone rejects you. The speaker watches a person walk away carrying their own little lamp, able to see where they're going, while the speaker is stuck in the dark, searching for them through memories of the words they once shared. The hurt is sharpened by one detail: it took only a single breath for the other person to say they didn't feel the same.
Even so, the speaker keeps following the faint outline of the path, though it leads "to nothing." That small admission makes the poem feel honest and a little sad. Hope and denial are tangled together. The glowing lamps and the night suggest a dream-like stretch of longing, and waking up to find it gone brings the loss back sharply. The speaker is left holding a "dark candle," a light that has burned out.
The mood is quiet, lonely, and wistful. The ending, "The stars will come back / But for now / It's just me," offers a faint hope that things may brighten, but it doesn't hide the loneliness of the present.