If You have bestowed pain upon me instead of a heart, then now grant me a tongue capable of expressing gratitude as well.

The poet speaks to the Divine or the beloved with a tender, paradoxical surrender: if pain has taken the place of a beating heart within the chest, then grant the words to thank you for it. Rather than a bitter protest, it is an acknowledgment of sorrow as a sacred, intimate gift. It shows the quiet nobility of a lover who would rather find gratitude in grief than live without the beloved's touch entirely.