Yad-e-mizhgan Men Ba-nashtar-e-zar-e-sauda-e-khayal — Mirza Ghalib
Meaning
In the agony of remembering the beloved's eyelashes, which turns the frenzy of my thoughts into a field of lancets, I need a hundred sides at once to toss and turn during this burning restlessness.
Explanation
Ghalib captures the absolute peak of sleepless yearning here with striking physical imagery. When he recalls the beloved's sharp eyelashes, his obsessive thoughts turn into a prickling field of lancets, setting his whole spirit on fire with restlessness. The agony of tossing and turning in bed becomes so overwhelming that merely having two sides to roll upon is not enough—he wishes he had a hundred flanks at once just to cope with the sheer intensity of his torment.
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