Thank you for taking into consideration my creation for your literary criticism exercise, dear @acousticsteveo. For me it is a great honor. I admire the way you penetrate not only in meanings, but in form. Both are intertwined in this poem. I feel you have many successes, the braid has to do with the union of the lyric speaker to the world he has lived, to his own inner world, to his roots, which somehow is not strong. The braid symbolizes the desire to tie, without really linking, the possibility of creating ties that center it, without losing freedom. That being and not being, that defines her feeling the distance of her environment, makes her withdrawn and even indifferent, because she enjoys, in the end, the freedom that she defends, even at the expense of herself, of her desires and feelings.