We walked apart through seasons carved with quiet aching space
pretending distance softened what our hearts refused to say
But love endured in shadows neither time nor fear erased
a silent flame that learned to burn across the gray
You lived your life in circles barely brushing into mine
yet somehow every turning brought your memory near
Our souls remained entangled in a thread both old and fine
a whisper of a promise neither lifetime could unhear
If fate had placed you closer in the hours we both cried
perhaps the space between our worlds would not have felt so tall
Perhaps our trembling loneliness would not have learned to hide
and love would rise in fullness
instead of almost-fall
But even in the distance there is warmth that lingers still
a quiet proof that love when true no absence learns to kill
In the next life we’ll be near
by destiny
and will