I love you, I love you
I have always felt a void in my heart which I try to fulfill by learning as much as I can about this world in an attempt to find my life's purpose. In 2015, it inspired me to write a novel, A Thousand Cursed Lives, a story about two souls reborn across a thousand years, and always finding each other again in different bodies with different names. The void they feel is a result of them looking for one another and can only end when they finally meet. Maybe, in real life, one of my life's purpose is to find my Bushra (in modern day, the name of the female character is "Bushra" and it means "good news " in Arabic)
So it’s settled
I will leave one page of my love story blank
a space untouched by memory
a white chapter written in pause
Not because I’ve known you
but because I believe I will
Not by face, not by name
but by the way the world will hush
when you finally arrive
olive skin warmed by sunlight,
dark hair falling like quiet thoughts,
glasses framing eyes that study the world
the way seekers study truth.
A soul drawn towards curiosity
and the soft wilderness of the human mind
someone fascinated by what it means
to be alive at all.
Come as you wish
on a quiet morning
in the stillness of a song
or in the middle of my sentence
Until then
I’ll write a poem for you each day
verses shaped by dreams
riddled with guesses
hoping they’ll fit your soul
when you wear them
Even after the ink dries
like dust after rain
And the page forgets
what it was waiting for
I will remember to wait
And when I sleep
a butterfly finds me
Its wings speak in colors
I’ve never named
It lands on my pillow
soft as breath
and I know
you’re real
Somewhere
breathing the same stars
You are far, but not a stranger
Unknown, but not unknowable
So I’ll wait, pen in hand
heart unfinished, a page always blank
for the day you write yourself in
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