Nala Kon Ay Del Shuraida Man

Nala Kon Ay Del Shuraida — Lament, O My Turbulent Heart — is an address to the heart as a fellow sufferer, not an unruly entity to be restrained. Where other songs counsel the heart against excess, this one gives it permission: lament, O turbulent (shuraida) heart. The permission is offered because the cause is real — the companion has fled from the roof's edge tonight.

The contrast with others is pointed: 'All others make drunken laughter / But I make drunken weeping.' The parallel grammatical structure — others drunk with laughter, the speaker drunk with weeping — identifies weeping as a form of intoxication, an altered state as consuming as any wine. The turbulent heart is better made mad than left in the half-state of melancholy.

'Since she is no longer beside me / All night my house is dark / I go toward other lands / The step of death draws near' — the stanzas accelerate from grief through motion toward death. The house going dark is the immediate condition; the departure toward other lands is the consequence; the step of death drawing near is the destination. The word 'step' (gaam) for death is precise — it is not death's arrival but death's approach, the sound of it coming closer. The song ends before death arrives.