Interpreting The Dark Night Poem by Genova Maaa my mother

The Dark Night of the Soul is only a name for the painful and negative state which normally intervenes
between the illuminative and the Unitive Life. Interpretation of the dark night by the contemplatives vary. Each type of illumination is in fact balanced by its own appropriate type of ‚dark‘.
In some, the intellectual darkness and confusion overwhelms everything else and in others, the anguish of the lover who has suddenly lost the Beloved, so to say, the emotional aspect predominates.
The dark night, is really a deeply human process, in which the self which is firmly established upon the supernatural plane, which thought itself to be so spiritual, is forced to turn back, to leave the Light, and pick up those qualities which it had left behind. Only by the transmutation of the whole man, can Divine Humanity be formed. The formation of this Divine Humanity, the remaking of man, is the mystic's only certain ladder to the Real.