O sorrowful heart, you alone have been my comforter; to whom else besides you can I express the pain of separation?

In this moving couplet, the poet captures the quiet ache of absolute solitude following a bitter separation. Finding no empathy in the outside world, the speaker turns inward, speaking to their own wounded heart as their only remaining confidant. There is a poignant tenderness in this realization: the very heart that suffers the pain of parting is also the only listener compassionate enough to bear its sorrow.