The writer is traveling away from their love and sending them letters expressing their longing to reunite. They ask their love to not fault them for their absence and know that their heart longs for their presence. As their days grow long without their love's company, accompanying their shadow would suffice until they can touch again. Though their sight is robbed, their love's voice leads them back to their embrace, and they pray their flesh remains strong and not weak to their love's touch. They beg their love to remember them and let patience do its work, as they care not for themselves but only for their love.