Do not ask the reality behind these sighs and weeping; dear friends, this is simply the inevitable demand of being in love.
Here, the poet gently tells his concerned friends not to probe into the reasons behind his deep sighs and weeping. In the tradition of love poetry, heartache is not an unexpected flaw or an accident; it is the fundamental demand and natural consequence of loving deeply. By calling his grief love's inherent requirement, he embraces suffering not as a bitter complaint, but as a badge of true devotion.
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