It is a dark poem that sees no hope for the world either in future or in the past. A reader might conclude that the poet's present could be holding a beam of light in its palm.
It must be some proof that might have given the impression that our future is full of lies and the past too was the same. So it is obviously a world based on a web of lies. Not an attractive picture but that is the vision presented here. This is the reality that comes across the poet's awareness of life or its essence. No visible or credible reasons are seen.
we all have our own brand of enthusiasm to see light in darkness or come what may surrounded by a sense of disillusion.

Form-
It is more like prose arranged like a prose-poem with appealing imagery regarding human fate.
"To venture into the unknown or get trapped back into what I escaped."
To me a "venture" is so much better than being "trapped."

A thought-provoking poem.

Write on!