کوئی دن گر زندگانی اور ہے Koi din gar zindagani aur hai

About this ghazal

A short ghazal on the refrain "aur hai" (is something else). The messenger hands over the letter and keeps looking at the poet's face, so there must be a spoken message too; the stars may cut lives short, but the beloved is a different calamity. It ends wryly: all the troubles are over, Ghalib, only one sudden death is left.