Can our hearts connect without ever meeting?

How nice the Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet once said in one of his poems:

‘’Let’s say we’re seriously ill, need surgery —

which is to say we might not get up

from the white table.

Even though it’s impossible not to feel sad

about going a little too soon,

we’ll still laugh at the jokes being told,

we’ll look out the window to see if it’s raining,

or still wait anxiously

for the latest newscast…’’

When I let that go through my mind I was in the intensive care unit because of Covid-19, I was without breath for three days and the nurse had brought my wrapped phone to me and I was looking to the messages, or rather if someone has asked about me. Obviously, there were many, but none of them related to my sickness, but about any jokes or questions about a help I should provide, some of them related to work, that’s it.

Of course, that reminded me of what it was like a few years ago when the doctors almost gave up on me and I was waiting for death because of brain cancer and all the people whom I changed the life for good had left me alone in this room. As I said then:

‘’ The death of a poet is the coldest thing, it’s so cold that nobody wants to touch it and freeze for eternity.’’

Times had changed, I had overcome and survived the disease, but apparently I hadn’t been tested enough in God’s eye, and this time he had given me a tiny little virus in me to see if I was still strong enough..

Exactly when I thought that, I saw several messages on my Instagram, from the same person, a person I never saw, or could ever meet when I was in Bangalore, sadly our times have not matched, but several times had nice conversations on social media before.

I have seen her for the first time when I was scrolling down my feed for a year ago and the first thing what caught my attention was her eyes.

It was one of the most beautiful eyes you can see, but that was not what influenced me, but my sixth sense gave me the signal that there was also a lot of melancholy, a lot of sadness and heartbreak that…

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