You made union with the beloved impossible, yet you deemed the killing of the lover permissible.
This couplet captures the lover's tender yet piercing grievance against the beloved's unfair rules of love. While granting the joy of union was deemed impossible and forbidden, breaking the lover's heart and extinguishing their life was declared perfectly permissible. It gently unravels the bittersweet paradox of romance, where devotion is treated as a crime, but the destruction of the devotee is pardoned without a second thought.
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