Gordon uses descriptive details such as "Pale grew your cheek and your kiss" (5) showing that he knew the end was near. The real question that mood can help answer in this poem is: Is it love or lust that these partners feel? Lust establishes our relationship as one-sided because both people will not feel the same. The excitement of a relationship or a short relationship with an end. Lust is temporary rather than eternal. When that feeling ends, the fall is harder because you were so high and then the reality hits again that you can't do it anymore. One person is usually left with much more heartbreak than another. Throughout this poem Gordon mentions "They don't know that I knew you, that I knew you too well" (21-22). People don't know they know each other. They are damned, they have no future, they only exist behind closed doors