Unspoken: Poems of Love and Memory

When My Soul Knew You

About this poem

When My Soul Knew You is a reflection on the mysterious feeling of recognizing someone before truly knowing them.

Set against the simple memory of being chosen as a partner in a crowded room, the poem explores the idea that some connections feel older than the moment in which they begin.

It is about that quiet, inexplicable pull between two souls, the feeling that perhaps we have crossed paths before, and the belief that some bonds are written beyond time.

a boy and a girl looking each other in a crowded class

🎵 "Bangla sad" — ProzzolRitchil (Pixabay Music)

I caught you gazing at me,
did you notice I gazed back, too?

In a crowded room of eighty,
you chose me for your partner.

Little did you know
what had already drawn us close.

My soul recognized you instantly.

Perhaps you felt the pull, too,
even if you did not yet know
who I was to you.

Across a thousand lifetimes,
I will choose you
every single time,

because the Divine
had already knotted our souls as one.

Arshia Sultana

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