She Poem by Mohammad Yousef

In the quiet corners of a crowded room,
where time hangs like a forgotten melody,
I find her—a vision, a whisper,
a flicker of light dancing in shadow,
and suddenly the world unravels,
threads of reality fraying at the edges.

She moves like a breeze,
her laughter a symphony,
notes floating, swirling,
tugging at the heartstrings of the mundane,
each smile a brushstroke on the canvas of my mind,
each glance a doorway into a dreamscape,
where possibility blooms like wildflowers
in the cracks of concrete cities.

Her hair cascades, a waterfall of silk,
catching the golden sun,
and in that glow,
I see the universe reflected,
stars colliding in the depths of her gaze.
She holds galaxies within her laughter,
each sound a comet tracing arcs,
across the vastness of my longing,
and I, a wanderer, lost in her orbit,
a satellite of desire, spinning in her gravity.

But oh, the illusion thickens,
as I reach for her,
fingers grazing the air,
and she shimmers,
a mirage on the horizon of my heart,
a fleeting glimpse of what could be,
if only my dreams could stretch into the dawn.

I am caught in this reverie,
a thief of moments,
plucking petals from the flower of time,
"Is she real? " I ask the echoes,
as they dance back, laughing,
"Is she just a figment,
a wisp of smoke,
or does she breathe like the morning,
full of life,
full of love? "

I close my eyes,
and the world falls away,
the cacophony of existence fades
into a hush,
and there she is,
a specter, a muse,
her beauty a hallucination,
so vivid, so alive,
that in her presence,
I forget the weight of the world,
and float,
adrift on the currents of my own creation,
where dreams are painted in the hues of her laughter,
and every heartbeat echoes
with the promise of her name.

In this space,
where illusion and reality entwine,
I surrender,
to the paradox of her existence,
for she is not just a vision,
but the very essence of what it means to feel,
to dream,
to live in the beautiful delirium
that is love,
and I,
a humble poet,
am grateful to be hallucinated
by her light.