Humne Bheja Tumko Tum Kehte Ho Yaan Pahuncha Nahin — Nazeer Akbarabadi
Meaning
I sent it to you, yet you say it never arrived here; perhaps that go-between has devoured your very soul, dear Mir.
Explanation
Here the poet pretends to be puzzled. He says, I did send my message to you, but you claim it never reached you. So where did it go? With a playful shrug, he suggests that perhaps the go-between, the match-maker who carried his words, simply swallowed them up herself and never passed them on. It's a light, teasing couplet about love letters gone astray and the unreliable middlemen of romance. Behind the humour there's a gentle complaint of longing, a lover anxious that his feelings are not being delivered to the one he adores.
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