Perhaps someone in the garden of joy will love someone, but I have remained in intoxication ever since I fell in love.

This profound couplet captures the universal sorrow of deep love. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that anyone who is genuinely happy and carefree must be in love. But for the poet himself, the experience has been entirely different—since the moment he fell in love, his life has been steeped in continuous sorrow and grief. It’s a poignant reflection on how love, while beautiful, often brings with it an inescapable melancholy.