Sar Bar Hui Na Vada-e-sabr-azma Se Umr — Mirza Ghalib
सर बर हुई न वादा-ए-सब्र-आज़मा से उम्र
फ़ुर्सत कहाँ कि तेरी तमन्ना करे कोई
— Mirza Ghalib
Meaning
Life could not even endure the patience-testing promise, so where is the leisure left now for anyone to yearn for you?
Explanation
The poet captures the quiet exhaustion of spending an entire lifetime waiting for a promise that demanded far too much patience. The wait itself became so all-consuming that life ran out before love could ever be realized. It is a tender, weary realization that when an ordeal is stretched to its absolute limit, no time or heart is left even to desire the beloved anymore.
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