SAHEB

<p>I write these words not to capture you not to hold you but to honor you. So that when the pages close when silence returns and when the years pass a part of you remains here&mdash;tender luminous eternal. Every unfinished poem every color in my sarees every photograph where my laughter spills freely&mdash;they all carry traces of you. They are fragments of a love that refuses to be constrained by time by distance by the ordinary world.</p><p>This is not an ending. It is a breath. A quiet promise. That no matter what storms arrive no matter how far life stretches us we will find each other again and again. And when that day comes when all the fragments of our journey align we will simply hold each other and say &ldquo;I told you we would make it.&rdquo; Until then I carry you in every heartbeat in every word in every silence. Because you are and therefore I am.</p>