Aankh Na Lagne Se Sab Ahbaab Ne — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
Because my eyes found no sleep at all, every friend talked about my having fallen in love.
Explanation
This couplet plays beautifully on two meanings of the eye closing. When the poet couldn't sleep, his eyes simply wouldn't shut all night, restless with longing. But his friends, seeing his sleepless state, began to gossip that his eyes had closed in a different sense, that he had fallen in love. So because his eyes would not close in sleep, everyone talked about his eyes having closed in affection for someone. It's a gentle wordplay, showing how a lover's sleeplessness becomes the talk of the town, and how friends quickly turn a quiet pain into a story of romance.
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