We wish for existence and non-existence to meet, which is possible only if the beloved's extremely slender waist comes between them.
In classical Urdu poetry, the beloved's waist is famously described as so impossibly slender that it borders on non-existence, lingering right between reality and imagination. The poet plays on this delicate conceit with charming wit, wishing to unite the grand cosmic opposites of Being (wajood) and Nothingness (adam). That impossible union can indeed happen, he smiles, if the beloved's waist serves as the bridge, since it belongs half to existence and half to thin air.
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