The Silence Only We Know

There is a silence

That blooms between us

Like a secret garden

Only our shadows remember

It is the hush

Of two heartbeats

Learning the shape

Of each other’s longing

The quiet where your breath

Leans into mine

As if it has always

Belonged there

In this silence

Your gaze becomes a lantern

Soft

Golden

Dangerously tender

And it lights every place in me

That once pretended

It did not need warmth

The world falls away

The noise dissolves

Even time forgets to move

And in that stillness

I feel you

Not your hands

Not your voice

But the deeper you

The one who speaks

In tides and tremors

In the language of souls

That recognize each other

Before names are spoken

Our silence is not empty

It is full

Full of the things

We are brave enough to feel

But too enchanted to say

It is the moment

Before a kiss

That changes everything

The breath held

Between two destinies

Deciding to intertwine

This is the silence

Only we know

A sanctuary

A spell

A soft collision

Of your forever

And mine