I Loved You Still

 

I Loved You Still

I loved you still, when silence grew,
When pain knocked loud, and it wasn't you.
When life within me quietly died,
And you chose joy, while I just cried.

I held my heart in trembling hands,
While you walked free on golden sands.
My tears — they fell, you didn’t see,
The weight of loss was just on me.

I whispered dreams into the dark,
And lit my grief like a dying spark.
You lived your life without a pause,
While I made peace with what was lost.

But love — oh love — it’s not a light,
That fades with wrong, or dies with night.
It lingers still in shattered parts,
It aches inside forgiving hearts.

I don’t regret the love I gave,
It wasn’t weak — it made me brave.
But now, I choose to love me more,
And leave your shadow at the door.

For I am fire, I am rain,
A woman risen from her pain.
You may not weep for what we lost —
But I have paid the truest cost.

Still, I stand — scarred, but whole,
With tenderness stitched in my soul.
I loved you once, I love you still…
But now, I walk away. I will.

                                       KULSOOM AFZAL