I Loved You in Every Lifetime
An Eternal Poem for the One Who Was Always Meant to Return

I do not love you just in this moment,
But across the endless sands of time.
In every dream that once was broken,
In every mountain I dared climb.
I loved you when the stars were young,
Before the moon had learned to glow.
When souls still wandered without names,
And time had nowhere else to go.
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I knew your voice before we spoke,
Your laughter echoed in my blood.
Each beat my heart began to thump,
Was carved with rhythm from your flood.
You were the hush within the chaos,
The answer hidden in the quest.
The pull that drew me from the ashes,
The calm inside a tempest's chest.
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I saw you once beneath the heavens,
Clothed in golden winds of dusk.
We danced upon the edge of seasons,
Where time and silence meet and husk.
You smiled like you had known me longer
Than any face I’d ever known.
And though your lips said nothing certain,
Your soul had already called me home.
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Do you remember — or do I dream —
That day by oceans lost and wide?
Where I stood still and you approached,
Like gravity refused to hide.
Our hands met not in flesh or skin,
But in that sacred, ancient place,
Where souls remember other lives
Through tears they cannot quite erase.
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I loved you as a sailor’s ghost
That watched you from the lighthouse shore.
As windswept echoes called your name,
My longing could not ask for more.
I loved you in a Persian temple,
A scribe who caught your fleeting glance.
In hieroglyphs I tried to speak
The tongue of fate, the song of chance.
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I loved you when the Earth was younger,
And fires still claimed the air.
When we were gods and danced in shadows,
Bare souls, bare skin, with hearts laid bare.
You were the flame in every life,
And I, the moth that could not flee.
You burned me, yes, but still I circled,
Because your pain felt home to me.
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I loved you when I was a poet
Dying poor in candle’s light.
Each verse I wrote bled out your name
Though memory had slipped from sight.
You came again, through different eyes,
In different forms, through fate’s disguise.
But every time you breathed my air,
The stars aligned in moonlit skies.
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I loved you in a crowded market,
In whispers passed from soul to soul.
Where fingers touched and glances paused
And I remembered feeling whole.
I loved you when the world was ending,
When sirens wailed and fire bloomed.
You held my hand inside the chaos,
And silence echoed in the room.
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We may have died a thousand ways,
Apart, together, near, and lost.
But love like this cannot be buried,
No matter how it counts the cost.
I loved you once as wolves in winter,
Running wild through virgin snow.
The bite of cold, the thrill of chasing—
A kind of love only beasts know.
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I loved you on the battlefield
Where steel met steel and hearts met fate.
You were the healer, I the warrior,
Who came too soon, who loved too late.
I loved you in a smoky tavern,
A rebel with a bleeding pen.
You poured me ale, I poured you stories,
We both believed in love back then.
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I loved you in the age of silence,
When language had not yet been born.
We touched through eyes, and breath, and gesture,
A primal dance that knew no scorn.
And even now, I see you clearer
Not in form, but in your glow.
In every stranger’s fleeting kindness,
In every stream that dares to flow.
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I loved you when I couldn’t find you,
In lonely nights and hollow days.
In quiet prayers, I built cathedrals
From shadows lost in lover’s praise.
I held your absence like a relic,
Something holy, something cursed.
And every time I met another,
I compared them to you first.
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Do you remember when we died
Beneath the stars in desert lands?
We swore we’d meet again in time,
And sealed that vow with trembling hands.
The world was cruel, the war unkind,
Yet we believed what hearts had spun.
And now in this life, here you are—
Another dance has just begun.
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You don’t remember all these lives,
But sometimes, when you smile just so,
I see the Pharaoh in your grin,
The Roman fire you used to know.
You tilt your head just like the painter
I once loved in Renaissance.
You laugh the same as that violinist
I watched play while in a trance.
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I loved you in a world of dragons,
Where we were kings and queens of fire.
You ruled the wind, I tamed the stars,
And every night was full of desire.
I loved you as a servant girl
Who risked it all just for a kiss.
You were the nobleman I couldn’t have—
And yet we met in secret bliss.
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I loved you in the age of sail,
A pirate queen, your compass broke.
You found your way by scent of love,
And left your mark in every stroke.
I loved you even when you left,
In lifetimes where we couldn’t stay.
Because not all great loves are kept—
Some are meant to burn away.
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But every death led to rebirth,
And every goodbye brought new chance.
I’ve chased you through the veils of time,
Through every song and every dance.
And here we are — this modern hour,
Your hand in mine, your eyes so wide.
We speak in texts and sleep in cities,
Yet still the old ghosts walk beside.
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When you say "hi," I hear the echo
Of all the times you said it first.
When you kiss me, I feel the decades
Of droughts your touch began to burst.
You say you love me now and here,
But I know love this deep won’t die.
We’ve loved in caves, in skies, in ruins,
In whispered dreams and battle cry.
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I don’t just love your skin and smile,
I love the soul that walked with mine.
Across the eons, past the flames,
Before we ever tasted time.
So if you ask me why I stayed,
Why I forgave, why I believe—
It’s because you’ve always found me,
Even when I had to grieve.
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And when this life is done and dust,
And stars blink out and skies grow bare,
I’ll wait again beside the cosmos,
To find your breath upon the air.
For love like ours is not constrained
By mortal bones or name or face.
We are the ones who keep returning
To meet again in every place.
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So when you hold me, hold me deeper,
With all the lives you’ve left behind.
Hold me like you’ve done a thousand
Times before, in heart and mind.
And know this truth, beyond all doubt—
Though time may twist, and fates may shift,
I loved you in each life before,
And in the next, I always drift…
Back to you.
Thanks for reading 😘:)
About the Creator
Muhammad Abbas khan
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