Unfounded Distances

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Unfounded Distances

Sanjay Singh

Unfounded Distances

I call you my love,

like a lone star calling the moon

to walk across the night sky.

I am lost—

adrift like a leaf in a storm,

searching for the river that once held me.

My sinking breaths are lanterns

flickering against the wind,

my fading eyes,

two empty windows waiting

for your shadow to return.

I have scattered my world

like petals on your path,

yet the silence between us

grows taller than mountains,

a wall without mortar,

a barrier without reason.

No heart can cradle

so much ache for so long—

yet mine clings to you,

a bird with broken wings

still beating against the cage of time.

I swear, with the weight of the sky,

you belong to no one else but me.

And even if love has no witness,

my last sigh will rise

like incense from an unseen altar,

calling only your name.

Sanjay Singh

documentation: Waffaa Badarneh