You chose this believing it to be a simple flower, when, Meer, these fragments of my heart lie within the garden's bloom.

This powerful couplet is a warning about superficial judgments. Mir Taqi Mir tells the listener that while they might pick a single, seemingly delicate flower (gulchain), they are actually standing in a garden where the real treasures—or wounds—are the poet's pieces of heart (lakht-e-jigar). The message is that the depth of pain and emotion in life is far greater than what is visible on the surface.