By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again...

The lines contrast “day” and “night” as psychological states. Daylight suggests the public, conscious self moving through ordinary life while remaining tethered to its “shadow”—the private burdens, fears, or unacknowledged aspects of identity that follow us. Night, by contrast, becomes a restorative realm where divisions soften: solitude, sleep, dreams, or intimacy can reconcile what daytime fragments. The claim that “only night can make us whole again” implies that wholeness requires periodic withdrawal from performance and vigilance, allowing the self to integrate what it suppresses. The tone is gently consolatory, treating darkness not as menace but as a necessary condition for renewal.