THE SILENCE THAT SPEAKS<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A small grey heartbeat
soft, still, sacred
waiting where walls
whisper my name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You do not follow time,
you follow me
through echoes of steps,
through the rhythm of return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when I arrive
you fall into me
like light learning dawn,
like a prayer becoming heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You wait
and I become home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who carved this knowing
into your quiet soul?
What unseen hand
taught you love without language?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each morning
before the sun stirs,
before the sky remembers blue
you stand beside my sleep,
a silent sentinel of breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unmoving unwavering
until my eyes awaken
into your world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You wait
and I become home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O gentle miracle,
you turn dust into devotion,
seconds into sanctuaries
ordinary into holy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps you are not sent
perhaps you are mercy itself,
a living metaphor
wrapped in warmth and wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You never ask,
never ache for more,
never measure love
in the language of need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even when I was breaking
when pain had no pulse,
no poetry
you pressed your presence to mine,
and silence began to sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You wait
and I become home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tell me
what shall I call you?
When names collapse,
and meanings fall short<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when \u201canimal\u201d is too small,
and \u201clove\u201d is too light
to hold your weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now you tremble
and I learn your waiting,
step by restless step,
breath by borrowed breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sit beside your silence,
sewing hope into stillness,
listening
learning
your language of being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then
a movement
a murmur
a miracle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the universe
unfolds inside my chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You wait
and I become home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is no fleeting feeling,
no fragile thread of time
this is something deeper,
something death cannot divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One day
we will dissolve
into dust and distance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but this
this love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
will linger
like light in forgotten rooms,
like echoes that refuse endings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like silence
that still
speaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a9\ufe0f Shahid Abbas<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pakistan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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