Main Bolun To Chup Hoti Main Ab Chup Hi Tak — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
If I speak, you fall silent, so now I too stay quiet; it is an unjust quarrel that I say nothing at all.
Explanation
The poet speaks of a quiet standoff. Once, whenever he spoke, the other person would fall silent, as if words only created distance between them. So now he has chosen to stay silent himself. But this silence is not peace, it is a kind of unfair resentment that has settled in. Out of hurt or stubbornness, he simply says nothing at all. There is a gentle sadness here, the loneliness of two people who have stopped talking. His silence is not freedom from pain but a sign of it, a wound he carries quietly instead of putting into words.
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