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Between Silence and Light

Name: Between Silence and Light
Author: VanLyre

VanLyre 9 stories

Minimalist Freeverse Longing Literary

Summary

A quiet collection of poems about almost-love, distance, and the silence that lingers after someone leaves.

Genre: Poetry

Author: VanLyre

Status: 6mo ago

Chapters: 1

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 13+

Eyes Met

Our eyes met

beneath unsteady city lights.

Night rested on your face,

gold fading into blue.

Between us,

silence grew—

a shadow neither dared to touch.

You turned away.

The air grew colder.

What remained

was not your voice,

but the echo of almost.

A white flower

in an untended field,

leaning toward a light

that never stays.

Like me—

rooted in longing,

breathing in quiet,

accompanied only by music.

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The scent of white roses drifted into the air I breathed, not sudden, not bright— but steady. It did not insist on being known. It did not try to linger. It simply existed, woven into the quiet by a wandering wind that moved through the evening like it had nowhere to belong. Soft. Unseen. Like a dream unfolding at the edge of something distant— close enough to imagine, never close enough to keep. For a fleeting moment, the weight of the world loosened its grip on my shoulders. The city dimmed. The noise fell behind me. Even my own thoughts became lighter. And I let myself believe— carefully, almost reluctantly— in something gentle. Then the wind shifted. No sound. No warning. No shape to hold. It never announces its leaving. It never waits for permission. It simply passes, like light slipping from a window at the end of the day. The fragrance remained for a breath longer— thin, fragile— before dissolving into air and settling into memory. And my heart grew heavier. Not from loss, not from harm, but from the quiet knowledge that some tenderness arrives only to teach us how briefly it can stay. With that unseen breath resting somewhere beneath my ribs, I stood in the after— the stillness that follows what almost was. And I understood: some beauty exists only in motion, and some softness belongs to the wind alone. Kiểm tra ngữ pháp và tiêu đề hợp ý

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