Somewhere, 'Mir' was killed in the streets of that city; or perhaps, in a fit of madness, he simply rose up.

This profound couplet captures the essence of existential uncertainty. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that his very existence—his identity—is so transient that he might have vanished in two radically different ways. Either he was violently lost in the chaos of the city's alleyways, or perhaps he simply slipped away while meditating in the solitude of the wilderness. It’s a powerful meditation on the fleeting nature of life and the poet's own elusive self.