O sun of beauty, when you descend from the terrace, the shadow of the wall will fall upon us as vast and heavy as the sky.
The poet addresses his beloved as the radiant 'sun of beauty', standing gloriously atop the terrace. The moment this sun disappears from view, the resulting desolation is so vast that even the ordinary shadow of a nearby wall feels as crushing and inescapable as a collapsing sky. It captures how the departure of one beloved presence can turn a fleeting shadow into a smothering expanse of darkness.
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