The Shoes - Shakespeare's Monkeys

I'm delighted that the words have "some important meaning in [your] life". That's fairly unimportant to me as a reader. I want to understand what you're writing about. Too often, remarks like your description are preludes to opaque writing, where we aren't in on the important issues - feeling left out, and even more important, just not understanding what you're saying. However, in this case you've conveyed the meaning quite well.

I'm sure you said exactly what you meant, but this is a poetry site, so let me see if I can help you say it better. S1L1: I think eliminating the ‘that' would make it tighter writing. L3: Comma after ‘them' and dash (no comma) at the end would emphasize the next 2 lines, make them stronger. I also think if you replaced the comma on L5 with a dash, the ‘cause' could be deleted. Also, replacing the L7 comma with a period would make the "Not I" that follows pack more punch.

This is actually the strongest stanza, and can be made even stronger. If you similarly pare down the other stanzas, this write, which is now a bit better than average, could be improved a lot. You choose your words well, but there are a lot of filler words in there too. I do see some interesting line breaks.

Alcuin