Niama Bassari-Morocco: Presents a poem entitled – PHILIA

Your presence enters my life
like a quiet breeze through an open window
gentle, warm, and somehow exactly
what my heart didn’t know it needed.

There’s a calmness in the way you exist,
as if the world slows down
just to let us breathe the same moment.
Even silence feels safe
when you’re part of it.

Sometimes I think friendship is a small miracle
how your laughter can steady my thoughts,
how your kindness can turn
even the heaviest day
into something light enough to carry.

You are the soft lantern
I find in the middle of my storms,
a steady glow that never asks for anything,
yet gives me everything gentle.

And when we walk together,
the world feels different
not brighter, not louder,
just… softer.
As if life itself leans closer
to listen to us.

This is philia:
a love that doesn’t need promises,
only presence.
A love that stays quiet,
yet fills all the spaces
I thought would remain empty.

If my heart ever learned tenderness,
it learned it from the way
you simply exist
calm, warm,
and beautifully close.

Niama Bassari