Our state cannot be sever’d; we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

The speaker asserts an indivisible union—“one flesh”—so complete that separation would amount to self-loss. The language echoes the biblical marriage formula (Genesis 2:24), using it to frame love or partnership as a shared identity rather than a mere attachment. The claim “to lose thee were to lose myself” intensifies this into a metaphysical statement: the beloved is not external to the self but constitutive of it. In Milton’s poetry, such phrasing often serves to dramatize the stakes of companionship—how intimacy can be imagined as wholeness, and rupture as a kind of spiritual or existential dismemberment.