Kaiser Yousuf on Instagram: "These lines express the pain of accepting a painful truth while fearing the humiliation that comes with admitting it. The speaker knows that it is true—the beloved has left—but saying it out loud feels deeply embarrassing and heartbreaking. It is not just the loss that hurts, but the public exposure of rejection and the wound to self-respect. The couplet shows how sometimes people choose silence over truth, not because the truth is false, but because it is too humili