what is ishq?

Ishq is love that dissolves the self.
It is not romance, not possession, not longing that seeks an end.
It is fire and surrender, devotion without demand.

It moves beyond words, beyond thought, beyond the body.
A feeling that rises in the soul like a song with no name.
A knowing, felt but never held.

Ishq is the hush between notes, the tremor in a voice,
the breath before surrender, the silence that sings.
It is what remains when all else is stripped away.

Ishq does not belong to a language, a land, a faith.
It is the thread that runs through all who have ever yearned
for something greater than themselves.

It is neither arrival nor departure.
It is the endless falling, the endless flight.