The Star That Fell in Silence

This ghazal portrays the quiet unraveling that follows loss. The poet captures how absence disorients nature itself—seasons lose warmth, stars drift, prayers fall. It's a meditation on grief that lingers not in cries, but in the silence of what once was alive.

Don’t ask why my heart fell without a sound,

Why a star slipped in night’s mirror, unbound.

You left—and everything shattered in air,

Even the window lost its voice somewhere.

Spring arrived, but without you I froze,

The blossom fell—why, no one knows.

Still in my heart, the trace of tears remain,

Like a prayer that dropped in silent pain.