O love, go and search for another world of endurance and restraint, for we are no longer capable of bearing you.
This couplet carries the quiet, aching exhaustion of a heart that has endured too much. Love in classical poetry demands 'zabt'—the supreme patience to bear agonizing suffering silently—and here, the lover gently surrenders, urging Love to find someone stronger. It is not an act of anger, but a bittersweet confession of human fragility, admitting that the soul is simply too worn out to bear the weight of such intense passion anymore.
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