After inflicting cruelty, it is you who also feel mercy, and you alone are the one who feels remorse in your heart for what you have done.

Here, the poet captures the tender yet painful paradox at the heart of love. The beloved may inflict deep wounds through indifference or cruelty, yet they are also the only one whose conscience eventually softens into pity and quiet regret. It reveals that bittersweet dynamic where the one who causes the hurt is also the only cure, keeping the lover forever tethered between sorrow and hope.