Why do you increase this closeness and intimacy so much? I do not possess the strength to bear the sorrow of separation.

There is a heartbreaking vulnerability here that anyone who has ever loved will instantly recognize. The speaker gently pleads with the beloved not to draw too close—not out of a lack of affection, but out of absolute dread of the agony that follows when closeness ends. It touches on that quiet fear where the heart, knowing its own fragility, realizes it simply lacks the endurance to survive an eventual parting.