In Chapter 26, Poem 27 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the profound exhaustion and suffering of the lover waiting for the beloved. The imagery contrasts the 'dust-dwelling body' and the 'soul, bound by the chains of waiting'. A central motif is the shedding of tears of blood ('blood of the heart'), which fills the lover's lap, leading to a state of emotional depletion where the heart itself withdraws from the weeping eye. This illustrates the extreme physical and spiritual toll of unfulfilled longing in Persian mystical literature.