The Breath That Outlasted Time

This ghazal reflects on love as the only permanence within impermanence. As time erases all traces of existence, the beloved becomes the timeless constant — a divine echo that endures beyond decay. Through fleeting breaths and vanished moments, the poet finds eternity in devotion.

Upon the waves of time, they carried my heart away,

Yet whispers of your name forever stay.

The world passed by — our traces turned to dust,

But your gaze, eternal, was kept in divine trust.

To touch your soul, one fleeting breath was born and died,

Your name set free in every sigh, every tide.

Within my heart’s mirror, your image still remains,

All else has vanished — only you sustains.