Every time, certain surges of passion rise and turn into pain; who knows whether they are searching for the liver or the heart.
There is a striking intimacy in how the poet captures youthful surges of passion ('valvale') instantly transmuting into profound ache. In classical Urdu poetry, the heart is the seat of longing and feeling, while the liver ('jigar') represents the quiet endurance of bleeding wounds. Wondering aloud, the poet marvels at where this restless pain is headed—is it searching to crush the dreaming heart, or to exhaust the soul that silently bears it all?
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