Some profound meditations about sex, time, life, the universe
and everything from Paul Griffiths’s Song of Songs (Brazos
Theological Commentary on the Bible) :  The first six verses of
the Song “point the hearer first to what everyone knows about
[human love and sexual desire], which is that the memory of
lovemaking and the imagination of its repetition are at least as
important for us as its performance. We are constituted as
beings in time and as beings who are capable of being aware of
ourselves as such. This is what makes memory and anticipation
important for us, and it is remarkable that in the Song
lovemaking is depicted almost entirely through their lens and
not in terms of how the kiss and the caress seem as they are
being given and taken. Hearing the Song as a depiction of human
desire can intensify an awareness of this interesting fact about
ourselves as lovers and beloveds. It reminds us of what we want
when we want to be loved and to give love is not fully available
to us in the performance of tho