When Promise Fade

This ghazal is an intimate expression of quiet heartbreak. The speaker wanders through the emptiness left by love, where silence echoes louder than words. The imagery evokes forgotten streets, unanswered hopes, and poetry etched into shadows—love reduced to memory, and memory to verse.

No light, no voice, no sign remains,

Only a line of regret from your leaving remains.

My heart grew tired of love unanswered,

Of all these wounds, only silent pain remains.

I whisper to myself: “They’ll return someday…”

But behind each promise, a fading ache remains.

At the end of the night’s narrow street,

My shadow lingers—where a poem stains the wall, bittersweet.