This art features a popular Urdu shair by a renowned Urdu Poet Fayyaz Hashmi, which says:
Waqt ki qaid mein zindagi hai magar Chand Ghariyan yehi hain jo azaad hai In ko kho kar meri jaan-e-jaan umr bhar na tarastay raho aaj janay ki zid na kero
It roughly translates to say:
life is trapped in the prison of time but these are the few moments that are free by losing them, my beloved let’s not have a life of regret tonight, don’t insist on leaving
