Beautiful Expressions of Longing
- My heart guides me to you; the pulse rides upon words, yet the paths, my lady, betray me. How I loathe the roads that separate me from you!
- Speak to me of our survival together, and if you wish, tell me that we will perish together; I would choose that over living even a single day without you.
- How desolate life is without you! How cold this universe feels when you are not by my side!
- My shirt remains unchanged, yet my heart is tailored solely from the fabric of your absence.
- Your love illuminates my life; our love will forever endure, even across distances.
- In my moments of longing for you, all my thoughts converge upon you, and they flee from me to you; the yearning and nostalgia pull me irresistibly close.
- Sometimes, missing someone makes the world seem completely empty.
- How can I mask the eagerness in my expression upon hearing your name?
- I awaited you, and as the wait grew prolonged, I sent my sweetest sentiments to tell you not to stay away from me, dear.
- My longing for you may shift from pain to joy if only I knew you longed for me too.
- You may be out of sight, but you are never out of my mind.
- When I miss you, all my thoughts fixate on you; they escape from me and seek your presence, and the desire and nostalgia wrap tightly around me.
- Night has come, bringing with it the scent of longing wafting from afar, even though you reside within me.
- When we parted, I wished for a market that sold time, to bring back the hearts and revive nostalgia.
- Perhaps my soul has failed to meet you, and my eyes to see you, but my heart will never forget you. If the eyes do not retain you, the heart will not release you.
- I have someone who entrusted me with my wellbeing, unaware that I miss myself with every absence.
- If time does not unite us, then memories will.
- I don’t miss you, but I long for the person I believed you to be.
- Why is our path so long, filled with thorns? Why do I have to be here while you are over there?
- I will continue to love you, even if the wait is long; if you are not my fate, you are certainly my choice.
- Nothing makes the earth feel vast quite like having friends far away; they form the coordinates of my life.
- My love, can the distances keep us apart while our hearts unite in sighs? You, who hold my heart and soul, whom I adored and who filled my world.
- Never sever all ties with someone you love, for fate may grant you another chance to meet again, to revive the past and mend what has been broken; if the beautiful times have departed, who knows—perhaps a more beautiful life awaits you.
- My longing for you is not the issue; rather, the thought of whether you will return or not is killing me.
- How difficult it is to weep for something that gives no hope, to yearn for something distant like the stars, to love someone who treats you coldly, and to sacrifice for a person who knows not the meaning of loyalty.
- I love you deeply, and within me are a thousand beats that fear losing you.
- Love is the map of life, while longing serves as an indicator of death.
- You remain alone as the love within my heart, which I fall for every day.
- When we miss someone, the universe feels like an empty void, and your spirit is in another gathering.
- My beloved, when I sleep, I dream of seeing you in reality, and when I wake, I wish to see you again in my dreams.
- Love is the yearning for someone when they are far away, yet at the same time, it warms you because they are close in your heart.
- There are whispers from the past reminding me of my love for you, no matter how hard I try to ignore them; they slyly say, “Enough of the lies; your longing is tearing you apart.”
- Silently you weep, yet publicly you laugh; such are the souls drained by nostalgia.
- When longing strikes, you wish all faces could change to one familiar countenance.
- Fate would be their answer if we asked them about the cause of absence.
- Some wander in their new world, while others are shaken by a longing that carries words within them, wishing to soar into the sky and share them with everyone, screaming for a return to how we once were; the nostalgia for our glorious days is killing me.
- This morning is unlike any other, for the essence of your presence seems to beckon in every corner of my imagination.
- If a million love you, I am one of them. If one loves you, that one is me. If nobody loves you, know that I have died.
- Some may fade away, yet they linger in our thoughts even more than in their times of presence in our lives.
- No one else quite matches, nor can feel like you; it is the face of the person who brought this unusual feeling within me.
- Longing is a feeling that grows within a person until they can’t cope with it anymore, leading us into sorrow and pain for those we have lost.
- I have engraved your name in my mind and soul, preserving your image in my heart and my sorrows; your memory will remain the light from which I draw life.
- Our pens grow heavy with unspoken words; the burdens smother us, the pain assails us, the unknown frightens us, and nostalgia slowly kills us.
- All I wish for is your presence, while all others fade away.
- Only when you yearn do you love and excel in your emotions.
- I once believed that the space was ample enough for both of us; however, it was meant for just one—so, I found unity with you and the moon.
- If I planted a rose for every moment I thought of you, I would have a garden to stroll through for a lifetime without end.
- There remains a person, despite the distance and time, who holds the deepest love and occupies the most space in our hearts.
- Torrents of tears flood forth when they depart, when even their shadows vanish; the longing suffocates us, wrestling hard upon the throat of nostalgia, until our yearning collapses, utterly helpless.
- I love you dearly; do not ask me for proof—have you ever seen a bullet question its victim?
- Our dreams build houses upon sand, and with the very first wave of reality, these palaces are reduced to rubble; my yearning merges my reality with dreams.
- Do not question me about the dew; it shall never be softer than your voice. Do not inquire about my homeland, for I have built it in your hands. And do not ask about my name; I have forgotten it since I loved you.
- Your image is etched across my eyelids, shining as the light of my eyes; your eyes call to mine, your hands embrace me, and your whispers bring melody to my ears.
- As the moment of farewell arrives, eyes fill with tears; the volcanoes of sorrow erupt, making the moment of parting unbearably painful! Especially with a loved one, as though it were a burning ember that sears the heart, and like a thief that robs the mind; when the farewell moment comes, everything fades, dies, and disappears, leaving only my heart—unbeknownst to where it resides, only the blazing flames of longing remain, intensifying in the hearth of love, where exist a lost heart and tearful eyes.
- Sometimes we endure silence because there are matters that words cannot remedy, so many things that I long for; I wonder, will they return? Or will they forever remain but a memory?
- We need them; we feel suffocated by our yearning souls, whispering deep within of our profound desires for them, fearing our longing surfaces loudly and wounds them with their indifference.
- I dream of distances disappearing between you and me.
- Amidst the cold of winter, the leaves of autumn, the heat of summer, and the breezes of spring, my feet rush to take me where? I do not know, except that I find myself embracing spring butterflies, mingling with winter snows, shaking hands with autumn leaves, exposing myself to the summer sun, dancing beneath the rain; I yearn to return to my childhood, playing with my doll, building a house, planting a dream, and smiling at tomorrow.
- A tear falls, a candle extinguishes, and life without you disappears; without you, my heart comes to an end.
- Perhaps my soul has failed to meet you, and my eyes have also failed to see you, but my heart has never faltered in forgetting you.
- For those who have not embraced the longing for life, they have evaporated into its atmosphere and been lost.
- The yearning and nostalgia kill me; the separation and distance tear me apart; I long for the distant past, for the times that will not return; I yearn for a word, a glance, or a smile, but time deprives me of the sweetness of reunion and the freshness of seeing you.
A Poem About Longing for You
To the place that holds my longing when it called out to me,
I defied the warning of old age when it admonished me.
I weighed it; I am not honest about what is
Inside me amidst the vastness and the sadness.
Is it not enough that the tears of my eyes bear witness
To my yearning and reveal my state?
Days and months pass, yet our love
Stands firm upon the feet of time, fleeting.
The moon among the moons wanders through secret night,
What walks with a branch of the branches.
I tossed aside the solace of my passion, yet found no
Relief from my passion, my hands were unresponsive.
I wished to abandon my beloved but found no
Choice to bid farewell on the road of detachment.
Oh, Arab horse, thank the hand of the benefactor
For breaking the offense of the guilty sinner.
You have terrified your neighbors, so you stirred up
With it the fiery spirit of jealousy.
He did not look away from the harshest of his band,
So he slumbered from the homeland nearby.