The speaker has been looking for something, perhaps a place to belong or a person who understands them, and has found nothing. They wander a forest at night, following advice from others to "follow the light" that should shine through their own eyes. But the advice doesn't help. They meet no one, and the people around them say they look like a wolf, pushed out of the pack.
The turning point comes in the third stanza, where the speaker says the others don't see that they are blind. That small detail changes everything: how can you follow a light you can't see? The speaker admits they may have already given up, then says "or so I thought," as if they had been fighting that feeling. The ending is blunt. "I give up" appears twice, with "The search" between, and the repetition makes it sound tired and final. The mood is lonely and quiet, heavy with exhaustion rather than anger.