The heart used to fall passionately and helplessly for a beautiful face; alas, I still remember those bygone days of my heart.
This couplet carries a tender nostalgia for a time when loving was effortless, reckless, and total. The poet looks back at the innocence of youth, where just a glimpse of beauty was enough to send the heart into a passionate, unstoppable dive. Now, with time having tempered that fiery abandon, all that remains is a wistful sigh—'haaye'—for the lost days when the heart dared to feel so fearlessly and intensely.
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