Whether it was watching the mound, or was it just you, you left while still meeting my eyes with a glance.

This beautiful couplet captures the profound pain of separation, yet with a desperate plea for connection. The speaker acknowledges that the relationship's dynamic was always one-sided or conditional. But even when the beloved is leaving, the speaker doesn't want a clean break; they just want one last moment of eye contact. It's a plea for recognition—a desperate anchor in the face of inevitable goodbye. Mir Taqi Mir beautifully captures this raw, lingering emotional dependency.