The world of us oppressed ones is so cramped and narrow that even the entire sky within it is merely like an ant's egg.

Here, Mir captures the suffocating despair of the sorrow-stricken through an astonishingly vivid metaphor. The vast sky, which usually symbolizes boundless freedom, feels to an oppressed soul as fragile and constricting as an ant's egg. It deeply reflects how unrelenting suffering can shrink the entire universe into an unbearable, claustrophobic prison.