Who is the persona and what is his attitude in the poem "This is the dark time, my love" by Martin Carter?

Martin Carter
(1927-1997) was a poet  of mixed European, East Indian, and African descent who lived in British
Guyana, a country in S. America that was a colony of Great Britain until 1966.  Many of his
poems deal with themes of politics, resistance, and protest against colonialism (see first link
below).

"This is the dark time, my love" fits into this category of
poem.

The narrator of the poem seems to be a man who is addressing his
"love"; whether this person is his...