In early dawn your tenderness would rise
Painting unspoken longing in my eyes
The hush between us gathered tone and hue
Until my silence slowly leaned toward you
You read each breath as though it were a page
Softly unraveling my hidden cage
Your touch translated everything I feared
Turning each doubt into a shape revered
The quiet world submitted to your flame
Learning the contours of your gentle aim
My heart unclasped became a softer beat
A doorway opened where our shadows meet
Love found its voice through everything you gave
A living anthem neither wind nor wave
Could ever mute diminish or unmake—
You taught my silence how to speak awake