Susovan's "I am sorry" is addressed not to one person but to a group: "the ones / Who tried their best / To love me." The speaker admits to pushing these people away, and explains why. They were "still hurt / By someone else," treated unfairly "in the name of love." The central idea is that an unhealed wound does not stay with the person who caused it. It spills onto whoever comes next, including those who meant no harm. The poem is an apology, but it is also a small, honest study of how pain gets passed along.
The form is as unadorned as the message. The poem is free verse with no end-rhyme, and its short lines make it read almost like speech with the pauses left in. It opens in a slightly formal, letter-writing register, "I wish to convey / My apologies," and then drops into plain talk: "But I pushed them away." That shift feels natural. The speaker begins by reaching for the proper words for an apology, and the real feeling arrives once they stop reaching. The title and the final line, introduced by a tilde like a signature at the end of a note, bracket the poem with the same three words. The speaker starts and ends in the same place, as if the apology cannot be said enough.
Look closely at the grammar and you notice who is doing what. When the speaker describes what was done to them, the verbs are passive: "I was still hurt," "I was treated unfair." When the speaker describes their own behaviour, the verb is active and physical: "I pushed them away." Pain happened to the speaker, but the pushing was their own act, and the poem never blurs that. This is why the apology feels sincere. The explanation is there, but it is not allowed to turn into an alibi.
The poem also sets up a quiet contrast between "the ones" and "someone else." Both are left anonymous, but one is plural and one is singular. One person's wrong has cost many people a chance. The phrase "tried their best" is generous to those people, because it credits them with effort even though the effort failed. Then there is "Just because." The word "just" can mean "merely," which makes the reason sound small, but it can also sound like a shrug of self-reproach, as if the speaker knows how little this explains and how much it cost. The word "still" adds time to the picture. The hurt is not over, and it was still shaping the speaker's choices when the others arrived.
Love appears twice, and the two uses do not mean the same thing. First it is something offered: people trying "To love me." Then it is something used as cover: mistreatment done "in the name of love." Judging by the wording, the speaker was taught a counterfeit version of love, which made it hard to trust the real thing when it came. The phrase "treated unfair" fits this. The word "unfair," instead of the more polished "unfairly," gives the line a spoken, unpolished sound. The capital "By" in the middle of "I was still hurt By someone else" is also worth noticing. It may be a typing quirk, but it leaves the longest line in the poem running on without a clean break, which suits a hurt that will not stay contained.
What makes the poem significant is how much it refuses to do. It never asks to be forgiven, and it never lists the speaker's suffering as a defence. It simply states the apology and stops. That restraint gives it a kind of dignity. It also offers something useful to a young reader: the difference between a reason and an excuse. The speaker understands why they behaved as they did and still says "I am sorry," which shows that understanding yourself and taking responsibility can go together. The poem is modest in its means, but it names an experience many people will recognise, that of hurting the wrong people because of the wrong ones.