Muztarib Girya-nak Hai Ye Gul — Mir Taqi Mir
मुज़्तरिब गिर्या-नाक है ये गुल
बर्क़-ए-अब्र-ए-बहार हैं हम भी
— Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
This flower is a weeping, anxious sight, and we too are the lightning of the spring cloud.
Explanation
This profound couplet captures the essence of beautiful, yet overwhelming, sorrow. Mir Taqi Mir compares the tearful, restless flowers (guld) to the speaker's own emotional state. He states that just as the flowers weep, he himself is merely a flash of the spring cloud (birk-e-abr-e-bahar). It's a delicate self-description, suggesting that his sorrow is as ephemeral, beautiful, and inevitable as the changing seasons.
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