Inner Truth in Love

The bond can deepen to the level where partners feel each other's reality directly — and everything depends on what's actually there to feel. Root out the secret reservations (line 1): the hedge, the private exit kept warm, the withheld ten percent — each one builds a wall the other senses without being able to name. Trust the crane's law (line 2): your inner tone — devotion or ambivalence, firmness or hollowness — is heard at depth and answered in kind; tend what you are toward them, and the sharing follows of itself. Keep your centre of gravity in yourself (line 3): a love strung entirely on the other's moods drums and weeps on their schedule. And beware the empty broadcast (line 6): love declared past what the life backs — the cockcrow rising while the bird stays grounded.

The connection you want operates below the level your profile can reach — so work where it works. Become undivided: sincerity with no hedge, wanting connection without the secret ambivalence that guards against it (people feel the division and call it "something off"). Trust the shade-call: you don't have to perform your worth in the marketplace; the genuine note, sounded quietly in a genuine life, is answered by its kind — often from unexpected distance. Watch the moon (line 4): when something real begins filling, stay humble toward the source and drop lesser attachments cleanly, like the horse that leaves its team-mate to pull true. Pigs and fishes — even the difficult, even the guarded — respond to truth this complete. Almost nothing else reaches them.