Because of your unfulfilled desires, you have rendered us inert; otherwise, we were God, if our hearts were not abandoned.

This profound couplet speaks to the devastating power of desire (aarzoo). Mir Taqi Mir suggests that the very act of wanting—of loving or yearning—is what drags us from a state of divine perfection into the messy, emotional reality of being human. He implies that if his heart were free from longing, he would possess the power of God, but because he feels, he is merely a mortal soul.