Anees, whose playful eyes are you so crazy about, that you are rubbing your eyes against the footprints of a gazelle like this?
Anees captures a breathtakingly delicate image of romantic obsession and longing here. In classical poetry, the gazelle is the supreme symbol of wide, mischievous, and innocent eyes; the lover is so smitten by his beloved's gaze that he wanders after deer, tenderly pressing his eyes against the prints left by their hooves. It is as if he seeks to bless his own longing eyes with the very dust touched by that wild, playful beauty.
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