Giryaan Ho Agar Shama To Sar Dhunta Hai Shola — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
If the candle weeps, the flame beats its head in sorrow; thus it became known that the burnt-out moth was its very own beloved.
Explanation
Picture a candle burning through the night. When the candle weeps, when its flame flickers and sheds tears of melting wax, the flame itself seems to beat its head in grief. Why such sorrow? Because the flame has realized something tender and tragic. The moth that circled it, the one so devoted it burned to ashes in the candle's light, was truly its own beloved. The flame mourns the one who gave everything for love of it. In this image the poet shows how love and loss are woven together. The one who consumes also grieves. Even the flame, which seems so bright and careless, carries the memory of a faithful heart that sacrificed itself completely.
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