Ishq — A Silent Tale
A Journey of Love, Silence, and Unfulfilled Longing
1. Why Do I Love Someone Who Never Said a Word?
They never said a word to me,
So why does my heart long for them?
Why do I love them,
When they have never
Said anything to me?
There was no promise,
No confession of love,
Yet why did my heart
Fall so deeply in love?
They never called me their own,
So why did I begin
To consider them mine?
I wonder what it was
Hidden within their silence
That made me fall silent too,
Lost in the quiet of their unspoken words.
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2. What Is Love?
What is love? I never wondered before,
I never understood this feeling at my core.
Why does love happen? What makes it begin?
This mystery has never revealed what lies within.
Before I heard your voice, I never knew
That such affection could grow in a heart so true.
We never spoke, nor did closeness come our way,
Yet my heart wandered where your thoughts would stay.
I had never seen you, never known who you were,
No bond connected us, no story we could share.
Then what was it in your words that touched my heart,
That made me believe we were never truly apart?
There was a strange peace in the sound of your voice,
Each word held a passion, a feeling, a choice.
I never longed to see your face with my eyes,
Yet my soul remained full of memories and sighs.
Your thoughts kept entering my heart every day,
Your image adorned my silence in its own quiet way.
What was that affection? What was that feeling?
Without ever meeting, my heart began healing—
Or perhaps it was love that made my heart feel
A bond so deep, though it was never made real.
How could I describe all those moments we knew?
How could words express what my heart held for you?
I feared that this bond might someday fall apart,
That reality might shatter the dream in my heart.
So I reached out to you in the name of friendship,
And hid all my feelings behind a quiet lip.
Then one day, I confessed the love I held inside,
And gave words to the feelings I could no longer hide.
I said, “Listen, this is no joke or game,
My heart calls out to you; this is no chance or name.
I feel affection for you; you are my desire,
You live in my thoughts, like an ever-burning fire.”
But you laughed and simply replied,
“You turn everything into a joke,” you denied.
How could I explain the truth of my heart?
This was love, not mischief, not a playful part.
If only you had looked beyond the words I spoke,
And read the emotions my silence awoke.
What you dismissed as a joke and let go,
Was the deepest secret my heart would know.
Perhaps my affection will never reach you,
Perhaps my heart's call won't come through.
Yet one mark of my love will forever remain:
I loved you unknowingly, beyond measure and name.
I made a vow to keep loving you,
To spend my life in affection so true.
Whether you accept my love or let it depart,
I have sworn to keep you close to my heart.
Whether you believe in the love that I feel,
I have surrendered my heart to your imagined world.
Whether you welcome my love or leave it unnamed,
Your place in my heart will always remain.
I will love you again, every time, every day,
Even if our love remains incomplete along the way.
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3. The Words I Could Never Say
I loved someone
Who never loved me,
And after seeing them,
No one else could I see.
After hearing a few words from them,
No other words could reach my ears.
Who could know what their single glance
Had whispered to my heart through the years?
They never even knew
That I loved only them,
In every silent prayer,
In every unfinished dream.
Yet the words inside my heart
Never reached my tongue,
For all that I wanted to say
Remained forever unsung.
I had so much to tell them,
But never found the courage to speak.
I feared that one confession
Might make them leave me, weak.
And so, afraid of losing them,
I kept my feelings concealed.
The truth of my heart remained
A secret that was never revealed.
They were close to me,
Yet a distance remained.
There was love in my heart,
But confession felt restrained.
I kept them in my heart
Through every passing day,
Yet I never claimed
That they belonged to me in any way.
I did not love them
Just to call them mine;
I wished for their happiness,
Even if our paths never aligned.
And perhaps that was the reason
I never let them see
How deeply they were loved
By a heart they could never read.
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4. An Unfulfilled Love
I loved someone,
But could never make them mine.
I was given a lifetime,
Yet could not make our worlds align.
If only they had accepted me once,
Even if they later chose to leave,
At least I would have known
What my heart was meant to believe.
How did I fall in love with them?
I cannot explain.
What they said to me,
I cannot recount again.
What lived within their heart,
I could never understand.
They walked away from me
As though I had never held their hand.
They never truly rejected me,
Yet never accepted me either.
How was I supposed to understand them,
When nothing became clearer?
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5. Your Arrival — Like a Dream
Your arrival felt as though
A dream had turned real,
And I lost myself completely
In everything I began to feel.
Returning from that moment
Was harder than I could explain;
I could not put my heart into words,
Nor describe its longing and pain.
My heart wished to stay a little longer,
If only time had let us remain.
I wish you had said to me,
“Stay here a little longer again.”
But you said so easily,
“I do not want to understand you.”
I wonder why I remained silent;
Even I could not explain what made me.
I considered you my own,
But you never considered me yours.
I remained lost in thoughts of you,
While you never recognized what my heart endured.
If only you had paused
And tried to know me a little,
If only you had valued
The feelings I kept so quiet and little.
If only you had understood
What my silence truly meant,
If only you had listened
To the voice my heart had sent.
Why did I feel a sense of belonging with you?
That mystery remains unanswered still.
Why did that moment enter my life
When it was never something I wished to feel?
I never thought that I would
Consider someone my own,
But your sweet voice, heard for the first time,
Made me forget myself alone.
Unwillingly, somehow,
I stepped onto love's uncertain road.
There was no sign of any destination,
And I remained unaware of where my journey would go.
Now forget me once again,
Leave me quietly, without a sound.
Perhaps this is the path you have chosen,
And the story fate has written for us to be found.
But how can I describe
The state of my heart in words?
I do not know why your arrival
Made me feel estranged from myself.
I wish you had known me too,
Recognized the feelings I kept inside.
I wish you had understood my silence
And the emotions I could never confide.
If only you had felt
What my lips could never say,
If only you had understood
The feelings hidden away.
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6. A Few Moments Apart
We were apart for just a little while,
Yet I lost myself in you somehow.
Your thoughts remained with me every moment,
And my restless heart kept waiting for you.
However much you longed for me,
My longing for you was even deeper.
Without you, every happiness felt incomplete,
And even a crowded gathering felt lonely.
We were apart for only a few moments,
Yet it felt as though centuries had passed.
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7. The Search (Justuju)
I reached the place I had longed to find,
Yet silence was all that I left behind.
I searched for someone at every turn,
On every road, with a heart that yearned.
But nowhere could I find a trace,
Not even a sign of the one I sought to embrace.
Disappointed, I returned from there,
Where my search had brought no answer to bear.
I never walked that road again,
Where no companion remained,
No kindred soul, no friend to share,
No one who understood or cared.
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A Love That Remained Unspoken
Some feelings begin without a reason,
Some bonds grow without ever meeting.
Some words remain trapped within the heart,
And some love stories never truly start.
Yet even an incomplete love can leave
A memory that time cannot retrieve.
For sometimes, the deepest feelings we know
Are the ones we never manage to show.
