The tension between freedom and constraint is inherent to the whole existence. Dont be surprised by the fact that individuals are condemned to be free, responsible for creating meaning in a seemingly indifferent universe.

The best part part of the poem is that choices are not made on a “clean slate” but are shaped by the “weight of gold and fragility of feather-- Underscores accumulated baggage of memory, history, and existential fragility.

The interplay of light and darkness, where “you are the darkness, you are the light,”-- a dialectical view. It posits that the self is not singular but a synthesis of opposites, bound yet yearning for liberation.

If we are both the darkness and the light, as the poem claims, then perhaps the most radical choice is not to resolve this duality but to dwell in its tension, creating meaning not despite our constraints but through them.