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

You drift through my thoughts like jasmine in warm wind soft, sudden, impossible to keep. I miss you more than silence admits, but what wounds me most is that you never believed it. This longing it wears me thin, pulling me between doubt and a love I can’t unfeel. I’ve questioned everything a hundred ways but not once have I doubted this ache that speaks your name. Nidal Sati

 Longing for you arrives   Uninvited,   Without reason,   Without mercy.   Memories bloom like wildflowers   Your face,   Your voice,   The echoes Of where we once sat.   My soul drifts   To every place  Your presence touched. Nidal Sati

 Far beyond love or hate,   beyond all feelings and reason,   you’ve become a rhythm in my days  Beyond pride, beyond logic,   you’ve taken root in my heart Not through causes, nor circumstances,   but through the quiet way you echo   in my best poems Beyond minutes, hours,   days, months, or years you are woven into my life.   And I miss you in every way   a soul can miss another Nothing feels quite the same   in the vast silence   your absence leaves behind.. Nidal Sati

Between us,   a kiss hangs in the air  weightless, unfinished,   tormenting me   each time you cross my mind.   My lips remember   a taste they’ve never touched,   your mouth  a flame etched into my thoughts,   a shape I trace in dreams,   soft as a question   left unanswered.   Will you leave, my love,   without tasting what haunts us both?   Will you surrender a war   we never dared to begin just to avoid the burn   of a kiss we were meant to lose ourselves in? Nidal Sati

 And then I realized… that the soul is made of two halves   It can never be complete without its missing part But how do you know   That your soul has found its other half? You’ll know it  unquestionably  When your soul becomes whole,   You will feel yourself   Existing in two places at once. You’ll feel a space in your heart   That was once empty   Now gently, quietly full. You’ll feel the warmth of the sun   Being shared    without doubt With someone else,   No matter the distance between you. And in their absence,   You’ll feel the universe   Lose its meaning entirely. That emptiness…   is the ache of a soul   Drifting away   From its other half... Nidal Sati

 I hold onto hope That parallel worlds are not just a theory,   But truth written in the folds of time.   And somewhere out there,   In one of those unseen realms,   I kiss you when I please,   Hold you when my heart aches,   Watch you wear my shirt with the hush of morning    And slide my hands beneath its warmth Where skin meets breath   Not to claim,  But to feel   That in one universe, at least,   You are already mine. Nidal Sati

 Your absence is not quiet It speaks in the silence   Between my thoughts. It leans on my chest   Like a heavy coat I forgot to take off   When you walked away. I carry you in the smallest ways In the way I pause before a song ends,   In the ache behind a smile,   In the way I look at empty chairs   Like they might still hold your shape. There is a softness to missing you,   But there’s weight too The kind that makes air thicker,   Days longer,   Nights endless. I still hear your laughter   Echo in places it never touched.   Your name   Has become the softest bruise on my tongue. And though I’ve tried to let go,   There are parts of me   That still wait   For your return   In ways I can’t explain   To anyone but the moon. Nidal Sati

How did you find a home in me   So gently, without a sound?   Why is it your name   That echoes softly through my blood   As if my heart was always yours? Why do I miss you   Like the moon misses the sun   Far apart, yet aching to meet?   Why does your absence   Wrap itself around my days   Like a cold wind I can’t escape? Your face lives in every sunset   And greets me with each sunrise   As though the heavens conspired   To keep you near. You walk through my dreams   Like a lover lost in time  Appearing on paths   That lead nowhere Yet feel like they once led to you. You are my secret song  My whispered prayer   My sweetest ache   And the warmth I carry   Even in your silence. Nidal Sati

 How did you settle in my soul   So silently, yet so deeply?   Why is it you of all the world Who walks my veins without permission,   Without a sound? Why does longing bloom for you   Like spring in a barren land?   Why does your absence   Carve wide, aching spaces in my days Rooms where only your silence lives? Your face...   It clings to every sunset,   Rises with the sun at dawn.   You are stitched into the light   And the darkness alike. Why do you haunt my dreams   Like a familiar echo on roads   That lead to nowhere  Yet feel like home? You,   My uninvited guest,   My constant companion,   My sweetest ache.... Nidal Sati