Whispers Between the lines

 So near I hear your voice echo through the hollow chambers of my heart, gliding softly across the walls of my soul But I can’t touch you Can’t taste the silence curled behind your lips, can’t trap your scent between my fingers, can’t steal your breath with mine Can’t thread my hands through your hair You’re so close my thoughts move with yours without the need for eyes. So close, it becomes torment: to feel you everywhere but never in my arms I don’t ache from distance I ache from how near you almost are... Nidal Sati

 Gently, you entered like dawn through the mist,   Holding dreams in the warmth of your fist Every glance from you calms the storm,   Nothing ever felt this close, this warm All the silence speaks when you’re near A whisper, a gaze in your voice I hear   Love, in your presence, chase away all pain And in your smile, I’m whole again    Hope wears your name when nights are long Memories bloom like a timeless song  As if fate wrote you into my skies,   Remaining forever in my heart’s replies. Nidal Sati