In this despondent heart, those past tumults no longer arise. Hopes have shattered so completely that new ones are not even born anymore.
This couplet captures that profound stage of heartbreak where even grief ceases to be loud, settling instead into an eerie, hollow silence. The poet reflects on how constant disappointment has extinguished the heart's inner storm—not out of peace, but sheer exhaustion. Hopes have been shattered so thoroughly that the heart has lost the very ability to desire or dream again.
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