I wrote a thousand verses in silence Your name carved into every page The city moved, the years consumed But my heart remained in that first glance While you walked toward another life (I built altars in the shadows) Living in the echo of a promise (That time itself could not erase) Hum I saw you in the crowd, untouchable Wrapped in the safety of reason I lived through fever, through fleeting hands But none could burn the ghost of you away Every season, every decade I wore devotion like a wound A secret vow beneath the ruins Waiting for the moment you’d return The world called me a fool (Chained to a memory fading) But in the silence of my longing I heard eternity speaking Through the weight of years Through the shadows of loss I carried the fire of us Not a boy’s desire But a man’s undying truth Love survives, though torn, though scarred It rises again Unbroken by time You chose the path of certainty A home built on reason Yet even behind your eyes I saw the ember still alive I grew old in waiting But never in surrender Every wrinkle on my skin Was the scripture of my faith Now the years have bowed us both Our bodies frail, our voices slower Yet when your hand touched mine again The decades burned away Not youth, not fever But a flame matured in silence A love that defied death itself Reborn on the river of time Through the weight of years Through the shadows of loss I carried the fire of us Not a boy’s desire But a man’s undying truth Love survives, though torn, though scarred It rises again Unbroken by time And when the world calls it madness I call it destiny fulfilled Through sickness, through the flood of years I loved you still And I keep loving you