By Mehrdad Mehrju
when I think of you
it hurts
somewhere in my mind
somewhere
in my soul
I need to kiss your laughter
I need
to hug your silence
to soothe this ache
with longing
like a lullaby
I can’t say
I miss you
when I’ve put down roots somewhere else
maybe on another planet
maybe
in another breath
where silence has weight
so close
so far
Mehrdad Mehrju writes from the quiet edges of language, where silence breathes and memory lingers. His poems are not declarations, but echoes—of love unspoken, places unmapped, and feelings left behind. Drawing from mystical roots and modern dislocation, he crafts verse like someone stitching light into shadow. Mehrdad Mehrju is a poet of distances—between lands, between selves, between silences.
