Never you, alone.
Alone? No, that’s not what you’ll be.
Not even love will love you, alone.
Alone, you have thoughts which stretch to eternity.
You need safety. Love which protects you.
Everyone hears every musical tone.
But these notes are not for you, though you listen to them, alone.
Music, which is made for others, loves you.
Even love, looking at you, cannot ever love you alone.
You cling to what has the power to take your safety away.
Innocence requires vigilance
And only vigilance is skillful, and knows what the music should say.
Only vigilance is love.
Protect, and be protected.
Only protection loves.
Loved and protected,
By fortress, swords, laws, and lands.
Alone? You are not alone.
And this is what the one who loves you never understands.