Whispers Between the lines

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