Aata Hai Gar To Aao Ki Seene Se Halke Ab — Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq
Meaning
If you mean to come, then come now, for the breath of my waiting has slipped from my chest and come to a halt in my eyes.
Explanation
The poet has been waiting so long that the waiting itself feels alive, like a breath. That breath has slowly risen from his chest and now rests in his eyes, trembling on the very edge. He says to his beloved: if you are going to come at all, then please come now. My life, my breath, has moved up to my eyes. It can no longer stay hidden deep inside me. I am at the final moment, right at the point of fading away. In other words, come quickly, before this breath leaves me completely. It is a tender cry of longing, where love and exhaustion meet at the threshold of the eyes.
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