From then and there to here and now.

Sometimes, I will be with you. Sometimes, you will turn around and not find me. I cannot help this. I can’t anticipate what anyone else will do. I don’t have the strength to fight everywhere at once, and you, too.

If you do not tell me what you need I cannot give it to you. Punishing me later serves no purpose but to alienate one who has made common cause with you.