And Still, I Wait: Notes on the Stillness After Love by Abhishek Agarwal

 And Still, I Wait: Notes on the Stillness After Love by Abhishek Agarwal

This is a heartfelt collection of 46 poems that resonate with the silence aching in every heart. These poems speak of connection, distance, waiting, surrender, and the strange peace that follows when the heart learns to carry it cannot change.

These poems vividly depict the aftermath of the heartbroke and how this tragic situation shapes our present and behaviour. Beginning with a whisper love seeks its place deep in heart but the collisions and feeling of being found makes it so smooth as if never lost.

I enjoyed reading almost all the poems making it hard for me to absorb the feeling for so long. These poems wander through the widening spaces between what was said and what was meant, between closeness and the memory of it and much more.

Verses that piqued me:

🌸" But silence teaches its own lessons:

      not every absence is a loss,

      and not every pause is a promise.

      Sometimes it's just the sound

       of someone choosing elsewhere,

      while you are still listening."

🌸 "And in that stillness,

      I learnt how heavy

      unanswered questions can be,

      how they circle the mind

      looking for doors

     that no longer open."

The author has indirectly shared his experience of beginning with a whisper to the silence that settles after someone leaves. His deep but heart-touching brief in the beginning of each section of poems makes the reader linger to perceive the insights of truth hardly acknowledged.

Overall, it is a heartfelt collection of poems, and the emotions felt are palpable.

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