How to be sure that your partner
Is truly sincere with you?
Try to be open-eyed and size up
Every single particular, so far
As reply is always behind details.
The manner he/she wears down
A pair of shoes, the bodily gestures,
Sights and stances will tell you
That all oblique things and
Sidelong glances are indications
Of one's insincerity.
Take also into consideration
That each slight divination
From the uprightness today
Will very soon bring both sides
To a great gap in relationships;
So, keep upright, as in heavy seas.
If you want to keep your relations
Rock-steady and for a long time,
You have to learn the way
To be soft and gentle. As it fairly goes,
"The soft and curved get over
The hard and bonelike straight."
At the same time please don't forget
He who fusses over anything spoils it;
He who holds anything tightly loses it.
....and the strings loose...
Diana