A New Life, A New Vow

(इम्तिहान — एक और जनम, एक और वादा)

Lifetimes had passed,
So had promises,
Yet love’s breath
Never left our souls.

Then came
A morning unlike any before —
Neither life recognized it,
Nor death could halt it.

You stood before me —
Not a stranger,
Not a name forgotten,
But sunlight reborn in my dawn.

Your smile
Broke centuries of silence within me,
And your gaze
Returned all I thought was lost.

You bore a different name,
I wore a different form,
But still…
The air between us knew us.

This time,
Fate had its own design —
Your hand was held by another,
My vermilion bore another vow.

We remained silent,
But our souls
Still whispered across lifetimes,
Touching without touch.

We smiled
For the world,
Yet within us
The old flame wept quietly.

Once,
A book fell from your hands —
And in it was the same poem
I once wrote in another life.

Tears welled in your eyes,
While my lips
Chose silence
Over storm.

And that evening,
When we stood again
At the same turning,
Time paused once more.

You said nothing,
Nor did I,
But our hearts
Reached out like tides returning.

And once again,
We pledged softly:

“If not this life,
Then the next —
But this time,
Even the divine won’t part us again.”

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And so we walked on…
To new lives,
New stories,
Carrying the same old love
Like a secret flame —
Immortal,
Unyielding,
Etched into the soul’s script.