इक लहर में न थे हम क्यूँ ऐ हबाब देखा यूँ आँख बंद कर के साहिल को ढूँडते हैं
— Nazm Tabatabai
Meaning

Were we not part of the same wave? Tell me, O bubble, have you seen how we search for the shore with our eyes closed like this?

Explanation

In this couplet, the poet addresses a water bubble to reflect on the fragile, fleeting nature of our existence. The closing of the eye is a delicate metaphor for the bubble bursting—its very demise—suggesting that in our desperate search for life's shore, we end up losing ourselves in blindness. It carries a gentle, melancholic irony: though born from the very same wave of existence, we blindly seek salvation and meaning only at the cost of our own vanishing.

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