Forever in Your Arms

Forever in Your Arms

Mike Kaupembe

My home is nowhere near the airport

Yet, as dusk falls, my heart is already on the next plane

Distance is not measured by miles alone

Sometimes it's measured by the pain that refuses to let you sleep

There's a part of you that will never fade

Memories that live on beyond silence

Memories that can never be forgotten, even as time passes

It's not just your mysterious beauty

Neither is it the stillness of your tranquil horizon

Much less the gracefulness of the sunset

No!

 It is an invisible heartbeat pulsating beneath your skin

A quiet eternity that continues to call my weary soul by name

And I return

I return in my thoughts

I return in my dreams

I return because you found us, not because I found you

You are more than a destination

More than a landscape adorned with fleeting beauty

You are the answer to a question I held long before I knew how to ask it

More than a place to visit

A place like home that my soul had forgotten for centuries

Our meeting was no accident

The patient handwriting of fate

Written on the fragile pages of two distant lives

It forged a bond that neither absence nor time can erase

A bond that restored meaning to an empty place where hope had fallen silent

So tell me

If the soul is searching for a place that will forever remember it

If love is merely recognition that transcends impossible distance

If destiny is the courage to answer an inexplicable call

Then will you accept me?

Not as a passing traveler

A stranger seeking lodging

But as someone who has finally arrived?