ROMANCE Poem: I Want to Know Your Feelings, by Kumar Kaushik

I can feel my feelings—
just as you feel yours.
But I want to wear yours,
to see the world through your eyes.

I want to know your mind
as if we were one thought, one breath,
two souls unspooled in a silent embrace,
wandering the forests of your becoming—
where light and shadow are the same language.

Let me walk with you
through groves of remembered joy,
through thickets where sorrow took root.
I will trim back the dead branches,
until the past no longer claws at your present.

Let me find every river you’ve cried,
turn their currents to whispers.
Let me warm the hollows where shadows nest,
plant seeds where love still hesitates.

I want to know the storms
that shaped your cliffs,
the scars that even time forgot.
Only then can I hold you truly—
with hands that understand their weight.

So take my hand.
Lead me into your fractures.
Let me be both anchor and tide—
the stillness where your chaos
finally rests.