You Came Into My Life

In the beginning, your arrival—

a seismic shift, the plates and fault lines

of my existence reconfigured.

I am altered, a structure of joy

newly edified within the architecture of my days,

you the keystone in this consecrated arch of moments.

Loving you is a mirror held up to the soul,

a tender commandment to cherish the flesh that houses my sheerest self.

You have become my hearth, my canopy,

against the lash of life's tempest.

In the crook of your arms,

the world's din softens to a whisper.

There, in the enclave of your hugs.

sorrows lose their edges, anxieties dissolve.

My heart, once a nomad,

wanders no more.

It knows its resting place,

the lock and labyrinth of its belonging.

In the presence of your love— a fortress of warmth,

a bastion of breath—

I become inviolate, s

overeign, complete.

Always this key,

this artifact of the infinite,

that you carry,

turns in the steady tumbler of my heart.

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Qazi Faisal