Your exhausted heart longs for the pillow of my beating one As much as your weary head yearns to rest there too
But do not cry, my love That we are apart in this world. What is separation for a single soul?
We are two aspects of a single breath Think of how deeply we are exhaling Oh, what a relief it is to have found you! though you were in me all along
We are not apart No, not really For we cannot be parted How does one sever an ocean Or an eternal flame? You are not my life But we are life itself Together
And look how much we are living it.
Life is a veil And we are the riders Carrying opposite corners to vast expanses Spreading it over the world and coloring gardens beneath in the deep scarlet of our undying hearts
Do not cry, my love.
We are a compound that cannot be split. We were always one element anyway.
@Sheherazad.poetry
Originally published on my poetry IG @sheherazad.poetry. You can also follow me personally on @soraya.beheshti