Poem: The Quiet Hunger Between Heartbeats by Abrar Nayeem.
I fell for you the way silence learns to sing,
In the pause between daylight and regret.
Your smile held a promise it didn’t explain,
And my soul signed its name without reading the debt.
Your presence is heat without fire or flame,
A slow-burning want dressed as grace.
I ache where your shadow forgets my name,
Still I worship the air you leave in its place.
I love you like modern hearts do—afraid,
With hands half-open, ready to lose.
Desire wrapped in wounds we never displayed,
Craving truth, yet scared of its bruise.
If loving you is pain, let it be deep and clean,
Like rain that knows where to fall.
I want you not for what we could have been,
But for the ruin I chose—beautiful, raw, and whole.


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