Susovan's poem begins with relief: the speaker says the emptiness is gone and grief no longer rules their life. But the word "Still" turns everything around. Sometimes the old despair comes back, and the poem pictures it as drowning. The eyes stay above the water while the body goes numb below, and the ears hear waves that seem to mock. The heart is described as "naive" and afraid of its own grave, which suggests it clings to life even as it sinks.
The speaker admits that this struggle with existential angst can feel incurable. Yet the ending shifts. The body, "resolved in the earth again," leaves behind something "not broken" and "not aching," perhaps "like a flash of beauty." The mood is heavy, quiet and cold, but it closes on a faint, uncertain hope. The poem suggests that pain may not have the last word, and that something lasting and lovely might remain.