I asked her to allow him to let out a sigh of sorrow, to which she replied, 'What if the burning agony of his heart flares up into a blaze?'

This couplet captures a delightfully witty and tender exchange between the lover and the beloved. The lover merely begs for permission to sigh and release some of his bottled-up grief, but the beloved cleverly declines, asking what might happen if that breath fans the smoldering embers within into an untamable blaze. It beautifully highlights both the devastating intensity of love's pain and the beloved's subtle, playful concern.