This is a gentle reflection on how love softly enters our lives. It’s not about big gestures or dramatic events, but rather shared talks, unexpressed feelings, and the quiet presence of someone who becomes part of our lives.

The poem shows how true love remains—not just in memories, but in the deep parts of the soul where it learns to stay.

# Between Your Words #

It wasn’t love at first sight.
It was slower than that.

It began
somewhere between your words,
in the pauses you never noticed,
in the thoughts you left unfinished,
in the stories you told
without realizing
you were giving pieces of yourself away.

I learned you
the way dawn learns the sky—

gradually,
quietly,
without announcement.

Your laughter stayed with me
long after conversations ended.

Your sadness found a home in me
before I knew its name.

And somehow,
your dreams began visiting mine.

Now,
when it rains,
I don’t just hear the weather.

I hear the things
you once said you loved.

When a song drifts through the air,
I search for your voice within it.

And when the world grows silent,
I find you there too—

living gently
between my memories
and my heart.

Perhaps that is what love is:

The slow unfolding
of one heart inside another.

Until their happiness
feels like sunlight,

their sorrow
feels like rain,

and their absence
becomes the only thing
that has a presence of its own.

And though life may change,
and seasons may pass,

some people never truly leave.

They remain—

in the songs you hear,
in the roads you walk,
in the prayers you whisper,
and in the quiet corners
of your soul

where love learned
how to stay.

(Vijay Verma)
www.retiredkalam.com

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