What shall I use to keep you?

What shall I use to keep you? The lyrics mean to express my loneliness and sadness. I hope someone can understand love and hug. The poem "What can I use to keep you" is a famous sentence in Borges' works. Both English and Chinese versions are amazing to read, and the feelings between the lines are profound and touching.

What should I introduce this song to you?

This poem was written in 1934 and included in the collection of poems Another One. This is an excerpt dedicated to Beatrice Bibiloni Webster de Burrich, so this is a love poem.

I really appreciate the opening sentence "What can I keep you?" In other words, I can't keep you with anything. The last few sentences are different from ordinary love poems and adopt negative images. Generally speaking, courtship should give flowers and other bright and pleasant things. However, the use of such an image here is more touching.

These negations represent a kind of emotional humility and sensitivity, and also better interpret and profoundly show the meaning of the first sentence.