STAR TRUE BRILLIANT

Writing The Veil Between Us You do not lift the veil because someone might see your face, so you keep your eyes behind its shadow, and leave the world outside its place. But tell me, beloved, how am I supposed to see you? The veil has hidden your face from the world, but it has hidden you from me too. I stand beneath the quiet sky, waiting for one glimpse of light. Your silence becomes a curtain, your shyness becomes the night. You say the wind may lift the veil, but the wind forgot to come with me. It wandered through distant gardens and left me alone beneath the tree. Perhaps the wind knew your secret— perhaps it feared what I might find: a face more beautiful than morning, a heart more mysterious than the mind. So I do not ask you to unveil what you wish the world not to see. I only ask for a moment of trust, a moment that belongs to you and me. For love is not always looking at a face; sometimes it is waiting in the dark. Sometimes two souls recognize each other before ...