Mirza Ghalib

This Ghazal of ghalib is about love and pain, when one is away from his beloved and is remembering the times he spent together. The mood of the ghazal takes you one step further where one renounces not just love but also the world around and is tired of everything that is happening to him in his life. An emotion probably ghalib was going through in later period in life around 40- 50.

woh firaaq aur woh wisaal kahaaN ?
woh shab-o-roz-o-maah-o-saal kahaaN ?

[ firaaq = separation, wisaal = meeting, shab = night, roz = day, maah = month, saal = year ]