Who Are You?

By Vittala Chaithanya NM

Who are you,

that shadows fall away when you are near?

The quiet walls I built through years of strife

have crumbled at your whispered touch,

and now I stand,

unarmoured in your light.

I never sought the wild bloom of love,

nor dreamed to tread its fields,

but in your gaze, I am lost—

a wanderer among stars.

Your voice hums soft,

like winds through ancient trees,

and your eyes hold the tides of forgotten seas,

pulling me deeper, ever deeper.

You are the stillness

that soothes my weary soul,

a flame that mends

without ever scorching.

Was it fate, or chance,

that brought you here—

a gift from the unseen hands of time?

Let us drift together,

beyond the shores of doubt,

to where the dawn reveals its gold,

and the world, at last,

falls silent in our song.

By Vittala Chaithanya NM