About Love
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Ghazal's Concentrated Couplets
Presented in the ghazal form, this poem treats love as a pervasive, paradoxical force—both sickness and sacred practice, human and divine. Each couplet offers a self-contained assertion or question about the lover, beloved, and the ethical or spiritual status of loving. The ghazal’s compressed, repeating structure suits these compact, aphoristic pronouncements: it lets the speaker register variations, contradictions, and rhetorical turns without a continuous narrative. Read this as a sequence of related meditations on how desire reshapes identity, morality, and spiritual devotion rather than a single story with a beginning and end.
Read Complete AnalysesWhat can I say of love to thee, soul's ailment and calamity. It's only love wherever you see, love fills this world entirely. Love is the mode and style of love, it's man below and God above. Both lover and beloved be love's self-involved entirely. If God's worship is true you say, then love is good in every way. So charming beautiful is she? That love I seek, though foe she be. Is there a paramour like me, amongst lovers whosoever be. Love an improper thing you deem, for love does no one ever dream? Miirji, colour's drained from you by love, have you been smitten too?
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