Despite their unfaithfulness, that person is gradually becoming my very life.
There is a poignant, tragic paradox at the heart of this couplet: instead of driving the lover away, the beloved's cruelty only weaves them deeper into the lover's soul. With every act of indifference, the pain intensifies, yet so does the attachment, slowly turning the beloved into the lover's very breath. It captures that helpless surrender in love where even betrayal fails to break the spell and becomes inseparable from life itself.
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