Love Poem: GITI
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Written by: Saeed Koushan

GITI

## I.
Your absent gaze still scorches me,  
a mark from where your touch has been.  
The miles collapse like glass in rain,  
separation forges its cold chain—  
yet still your flame draws me within.  

*What keeps us whole when love's fire dies?*

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## II.  
I search your name through midnight skies,  
where broken constellations die.  
Each whispered word, a molten drop  
that binds my heart to the lingering shadow of you—  
love is the chain I won't deny.  

*What hidden force draws hearts to skies?*

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## III.
The fire within my chest lives on,  
though winter buries what has gone.  
Your ring—a circle, bright and whole—  
reflects the fractures in my soul;  
from love's ash, deepest tide flows.  

*What truth does dawn from darkness disguise?*

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## IV.
Between each heartbeat, silence bends  
toward the place where longing ends.  
I am fading flame, you distant storm—  
but when your memory takes its form  
like silver roots through earth's dark womb,  
we rise together from love's tomb.  

*What else remains but love's enduring ties?*