Sam M's poem imagines an empty, endless road and a speaker cycling down it, trying to outrun painful memories. The road works as a picture of the speaker's mind: cold, isolated, with only a few lights far away from where they are headed. Riding faster seems like a way to escape, but it backfires, and the memories the speaker thought were buried come rushing back.
The mood is lonely and heavy, and it gets darker as the poem goes on. A small moment with a baseball suggests the speaker is reaching for something ordinary and comforting, but the "dark monster" inside keeps clawing up anyway. The line "I'm alone now anyways" hints at a sense of loss, though the poem doesn't say what happened. By the end the speaker is sobbing and stops fighting, and the final line, "They're consuming me whole," leaves us with a feeling of defeat and exhaustion rather than any hope of escape.