For your sake I abandoned even my sorrowful heart, yet you never became my beloved and I lost a friend as well.

This couplet captures the quiet, bitter tragedy of a gamble lost in love. To win over the beloved, the speaker sacrificed their own wounded heart and let go of a loyal companion. The cruel irony is that the beloved never returned their affection, leaving them doubly bereft—having chased an illusion and abandoned the true bond they once had.