Sometimes astonishment, sometimes merriment, sometimes the sigh of dawn-hours; my pain of abandonment changes in thousands of colors.

This profound couplet by Allama Iqbal speaks to the capricious nature of heartbreak. The poet suggests that the pain of separation (dard-e-mehjuri) is not static; it shifts through countless emotional phases. Sometimes it feels like utter surprise (hairat), sometimes a dizzying intoxication (masti), and sometimes it manifests as the quiet, deep sigh of the early morning (ah-e-sahar-gahi). It captures the beautiful, yet agonizing, fluidity of emotional suffering.