{"id":1179,"date":"2025-07-30T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:12:04","slug":"lover-of-the-lone-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/articles-en\/lover-of-the-lone-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Lover of the Lone Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lover of the Lone Thread<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr. Qasem Muhammad Koufahi<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I Did Not Love Her<\/strong><\/p>

I did not love her.
I only loved the way the night flowed from her head.
Her hair was a path that led to no home,
And it was enough for me to walk it\u2014
Never arriving.<\/p>

I never heard her voice.
I was too busy counting strands of seduction,
Silencing words
So they wouldn\u2019t interrupt the noise of magic.<\/p>

She laughed\u2014
And I didn\u2019t notice.
She was sad\u2014
And I wasn\u2019t moved.
She was human\u2014
But I loved only her shadow,
Not her presence.<\/p>

Each time she spoke,
I wished the wind would hush.
Each time she came closer,
I feared her hair would melt under the light,
And a plain face would appear\u2014
Like mine.<\/p>

How long the hair was!
And how short the insight.<\/p>

When she cut her hair,
She died.
No, not her\u2014
I\u2019m the one who vanished.
I searched for her strands on the pillows,
On the comb,
In memory…
But I found nothing,
Because all I remembered was the length and the shine.<\/p>

Now, I stand at the door of my mirror,
Staring at a face that once loved a woman he never knew,
And I say:
What a love that was…
Not blind\u2014
But it saw a single strand
And mistook it for a body, a soul, a depth.<\/p>

What is beauty?
Is it what glitters first,
Or what remains when the light fades?
I used to think the eye was a mirror of the heart,
Only to discover it was a curtain.
I loved the hair because it asked for nothing.
It didn\u2019t argue, didn\u2019t speak, didn\u2019t change.<\/p>

But love doesn\u2019t live in silence,
Nor grow on smooth surfaces.
It is a pit\u2014
You either fall into it, or survive.<\/p>

Now,
Each time I see a woman with long hair,
I lower my eyes.
Not out of fear of temptation,
But in sorrow for my former self,
Who thought love was a strand,
Not a human.<\/p>

Sharjah \u2013 1 January 2007<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lover of the Lone Thread Poetry Dr. Qasem Muhammad Koufahi I Did Not Love Her I did not love her.I only loved the way the night flowed from her head.Her hair was a path that led to no home,And it was enough for me to walk it\u2014Never arriving. I never heard her voice.I was too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lor.ae\/arsolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}