This is definitely very dark and I loved the metaphor usage here. I know that pedestal well and I likr how you used it. People make it so high that you you cannot getdown. You feel trapped by eeverything and you feel crushed. I think the stilts are a metaphor about your life they are the only thing keeping you hanging on and if you fall there will be nothing left. Sadness and darkess will consume you. You cannot get control of your emotions and soon you fear they will eat you alive. Then at you stumble you fall into that your darkness your imagination makes it out to be. Great poem again. The wordinh is wonderful.