Poetry should not be taken on the face of it. After all, we got this song as well:
Tum se mila tha pyar, kuch ache naseeb se
hum unn dinon ameer the jab tum qareeb the
Most of you have heard event of wrath of Amir Timur on Persian Poet Hafiz for writing lines where he vowed to sacrifice cities of Bukhara and Samarqand just for a mole on his lover’s face. Timur was angry as he had to do lot of efforts to conqueror these cities and a poet was daring to give these just for a mole.
