If life passes just like this, it is easy, but even this respite of grief has no permanence.
The poet touches upon a bittersweet truth about existence: if life could simply drift along in this quiet melancholia, living would actually feel quite bearable. But the deeper tragedy is that even this stillness—the solitary space to sit with one's sorrow ('fursat-e-gham')—is transient and never allowed to last. Life is restless, constantly disturbing our quiet grief with fresh anxieties and proving that nothing in this world has true permanence.
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