O cruel beloved, I simply cannot find poison, otherwise, is an oath of meeting you such an impossible thing that I could not even take it?

The poet plays brilliantly on the Urdu idiom 'qasam khana' (to take an oath) and literally swallowing poison ('zahr khana'). He teases his indifferent beloved, saying that the only reason he hasn't ended his life is simply that poison isn't readily available—after all, swallowing poison isn't an impossible vow of reunion that he couldn't fulfill! Behind this clever and wry dark humor lies an aching truth: the pain of longing has become so unbearable that dying feels far easier than ever meeting the beloved again.