song of songs

Song of songs......

I look for him and did not find him,but they who go about the city found me and 
wounded me, and the guards of the walls took my mantle from me (sg.5-7)

Those who go about the city refers to the affairs of the world. When they find 
the soul who is searching  for god, they inflict on her many wounds of sorrow, 
pain and displeasure.for not only does she fail to find her desire in them, but 
she is also impeded by them. Those who guard the wall of contemplation  to 
world, and they take away the mantle of peace and quietude of loving 
contemplation;;.conscious  that as long as she is in this life without the 
vision of god she cannot free herself from them to either a small or great 
degree. She continues  her prayers to the beloved and recites the following 
stanza:

Extinguish these miseries
Since no one else can stamp them out
And may my eyes behold you
Because you are their light
And I would open them to you alone.