Your love taught me how to weep for centuries
To gather my pieces like shattered crystal, lost in memories.
Before you, it was blurry, a world frozen in gray
A heart that beat but didn't believe in the coming day.
I combed the sidewalks, searching for your face in the rain...
But I knew how to disarm you, without asking for a thing
I healed what the others broke, and the hope I bring.
You didn't need alchemy or to read the coffee grounds,
Just the patience of my presence, where true peace is found.
You taught me what love is...
: I'll show you what love is
Not the one of screams, of gypsies, or of war drums
But the one that stays when the silence finally comes.
At my own pace, without a mask, far from the old goodbyes
You put the truth back in the center of my eyes.
I used to draw a face in chalk upon the prison walls
Dreaming of the Sultan's daughter in the ancient halls.
But I was there, with no promises of gold
Stronger than your dreams, more precious than the stories told.
You didn't have to change the map of time or the sea...
:I just changed your heart, simply by loving thee.
I was a broken sparrow, a shadow of a man...
: But I held your hand, and taught you how to stand.
I was looking for one voice that was every voice I knew...
: And you found the truth... in the quiet side of you.
You taught me what love is...
Not the one in movies or the grand tragic speech
But the one that sleeps beside me, always within reach.
With patience, with a smile, far from the dark detours
You taught me how to love again, and make it purely yours.
Like a song with no return, engraved in my soul.
: Your love taught me...
That I don't have to cry anymore.
:Thank you, my love.
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Author:
Sami Khelifa (
Offline) - Published: February 27th, 2026 09:11
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Comments1
A lovely poem of giving and accepting love and what it means without the glitter and fireworks just the steady and dependable the working machine. lovely
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