shefaliqaa

abhi unki yaad aani baki hai.

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Other Wound”

Falling in love is ecstatic. I'm still listening to Par Channa De, let me tell you the story behind it. There is a girl called Soni, who lives on one side of Channa ( Chenab river ) and Mahiwal, a herder, lives on the other side of the river. Soni belongs to the family of potters. Mahiwal and Soni end up falling in love, Son's father gets her married to another family of potters. Soni still continues to see Mahiwal, every night she uses an Earthen pot, 'matka'/'ghara' to cross the Chenab river. Soon enought rumors starts spreading in the village. One night, Son's sister in law changes her 'ghara' with an unbaked one. Soni uses it to cross the river and she perishes into it. The song goes like, 'Yaar Noon Milegi Aaj Laash Yaar di' ( my lover would be greeted by my corpse ), as Klaus Mikaleson in the originals said, "what's worth dying, if not love"?