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kyā kahye myāñ ab ke junūñ meñ sīnah apnā yak-sar dāġh
hāth guloñ se gul-daste haiñ shamʿa namat̤ hai sar par dāġh
1) what can I say, my friend?! --in the madness this time now, my breast is entirely a wound
2) my hands, by means of 'roses', are small-bouquets; like a candle, on my head is a wound
FWP:
SETS == INEXPRESSIBILITY
MOTIFS == CANDLE; MADNESS
NAMES
TERMSThere's also the body-parts imagery-- the breast, two 'head' references, two 'hand' references. But Mir does this kind of thing so often that it almost becomes invisible. (He has no monopoly on it, of course.)
And all these physical stigmata are reported not for their own sake, but because the speaker's current state of madness is inexpressible ('What can I say?!'). The physical signs are the outward tokens of a radical inner disintegration-- and/or a reintegration, in pursuit of an ideal passion that looks 'mad' only to the worldly.