"THANKS TO HIM"

Khansa Akhtar

Thanks to him,  

my broken pieces learned to breathe again.  

Thanks to him,  

dark days turned into lessons,  

and lessons turned into strength.  

I was lost, he was the map.  

I was silent, he was the song.

 

Thanks to him,  

for the hands that stayed when everyone left,  

for the words that believed in me before I did.  

Thanks to him,  

I know what loyalty feels like,  

what patience sounds like,  

what love looks like without asking for anything back.  

If I am standing today,  

it’s because he stood beside me first.

 

Thanks to him,  

the storm in me found a shore.  

Thanks to him,  

my doubts became footnotes,  

and my dreams became the headline.  

He didn’t fix me —  

he reminded me I was never broken.

  • Author: MuSa (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 9th, 2026 12:56
  • Category: Love
  • Views: 9
  • Users favorite of this poem: Fränz Müller, Soman Ragavan
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  • sorenbarrett

    A lovely message of acceptance. Nicely written in a form of gratitude. Well done

  • Fränz Müller

    What a wonderful poem!

  • Soman Ragavan

    Well said. Some quotes :

    --- Without the cold and bleakness of winter,
    The warmth and splendour of spring there could never be.
    Misfortune have steeled and tempered me
    And strengthened my resolve even further.

    --- Under the pestle, how terribly the rice suffers !
    But it comes out of the pounding as white as cotton.
    The same thing to man in this world occurs :
    Hard trials turn him into polished diamond.

    --- Sadness turns my dreams into a thousand tangled skeins.
    An innocent man, yet I’ve been a whole year in chains.
    With tears dropping on my inkslab, I compose a poem on captivity.

    --- Now, poetry is something most intimate to man. It can hardly tell lies or else the poet is not a poet. So that they don’t necessarily gain by revealing their inner selves

    --- Ho Chi Minh (1892-1969) Vietnam
    (Full acknowledgements are made to the rights-holders.)
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