Along with gratitude for your kindness, please accept this complaint as well: why did you depart without making me like yourself?

In this tender verse, the lover balances profound gratitude with the ache of a gentle complaint. While thanking the beloved for every kindness, they ask: if you had to depart, why didn't you make me as composed and detached as yourself? The agony of separation would have been far easier to bear had the lover not been left behind with a heart still defenseless and fragile.