You did not even lift your eyes to see me there, though I am dead; oh, what cruel people, you were among the sick.

This poignant couplet explores the deepest pain of abandonment. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that even in the final moments—when one is deceased—the beloved (or the world) never truly acknowledges the suffering. The second line reveals the core sorrow: the person's illness wasn't suffered in solitude, but surrounded by cruel, indifferent people. It speaks to the universal feeling of being unseen and unvalued by those closest to us.