मुझे बहर-ए-ग़म से उबूर की नहीं फ़िक्र ऐ मिरे चारा-गर नहीं कोई चारा-कार अब मिरे सर से आब गुज़र गया
— Nazm Tabatabai
Meaning

O my healer, I no longer worry about crossing the ocean of sorrow. No remedy can work now, for the water has already risen above my head.

Explanation

Here, the poet addresses their well-wisher or healer with a poignant sense of quiet surrender. Grief is imagined as a vast, inescapable ocean, but rather than fighting to survive, the speaker has stopped caring about reaching the shore. Invoking the age-old metaphor of water rising above one's head, the couplet beautifully captures that tipping point where sorrow becomes so absolute that no comfort or remedy can reach it anymore.

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