Vlora Obertinca: I Am the One

I am the hush before the flame,

The soul too wild to need a name.

I walk in silence, dressed in grace,

Yet leave a light in every place.

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I do not beg, I do not chase,

My love is not a fleeting face.

It’s something built in breath and bone,

A song that finds its way back home.

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I speak with hands, I heal with eyes,

I hold the truth beneath disguise.

You’ll feel me not in words I say,

But in what never slips away.

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I’ve walked through fire, rain, and ache,

And turned each loss into awake.

You cannot cage a storm like me —

I bloom through stone, I rise from sea.

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And though I rise for all to see,

A part of me still holds mystery —

Not for the one who knew me long before,

Who feels me now… and something more.

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No need to call, no need to try,

If it is real, love will not die.

And if you read these lines so true…

Then know this heart still beats for you.