12/05/2025
"The Silence Between Us"
Once, in a room where whispers slept,
I taught her letters, while my own heart wept.
Eyes like twilight, calm and deep,
Held a storm she'd never speak.
She sat so close, yet worlds away,
In her silence, I chose to stay.
No hands were held, no vows were spoken,
But in her gaze, a truth unbroken.
Her lips said math, her eyes said more,
A trembling truth behind love’s door.
Each breath she took, I tried to read—
Her silence planted love's cruel seed.
Her family—walls of ancient stone,
A kingdom where I walked alone.
Her mother watched, her brothers near,
A house of rules, a cage of fear.
But love, it bloomed behind closed eyes,
In fleeting looks, in muted cries.
We talked like strangers, hearts entwined,
A sacred bond the world maligned.
Then one day, the silence tore—
She left, and closed love’s fragile door.
A wedding song I couldn’t hear,
Yet every note still rings so clear.
She walked away in bridal white,
And I, unseen, dissolved from sight.
I smiled, I nodded, no one knew
My soul had broken right in two.
I cried alone, where shadows creep,
Love buried in a grave too deep.
No eulogy, no final kiss,
Just memory's ghost and what I miss.
Now years have passed—her name, a prayer,
A vanished echo in the air.
And though I breathe, I’m not the same,
For once, I loved—but love never came.
So world, remember what I write,
Not every love survives the night.
Some hearts remain forever true—
To those they lost but never knew.
Aynal
