When utter despair set in, sighs stopped escaping the chest. Now the eyes too have become dry without tears, and the heart has ceased its restless yearning.

This couplet captures the haunting numbness that follows overwhelming grief, where despair (yaas) becomes so absolute that sorrow loses even its voice. As long as a flicker of hope remains, the heart protests with heavy sighs and tears, but total heartbreak drains away even the urge to weep. It is a poignant portrait of emotional exhaustion—a silent, dry-eyed surrender where the heart has simply forgotten how to yearn.