Heart’s Mirror – Lalu Metev

[Verse 1] (spoken-sung, soft)

I look to God
in quiet prayer — pause
not in bitterness,
not in restless doubt.

I look within
with humble truth — pause
not with stories
I keep stretching out.

[Verse 2]

I reach for others
with an open heart — pause
not with judgment,
not with distant eyes.

I walk toward morning
with a steady hope — pause
not with trembling
at the unknown skies.

[Verse 3] (softer, more melodic)

I turn to yesterday
with gratitude — pause
not with heavy
what-ifs pulling through.

And if I walk
in honesty and grace — pause
the rest will come,
when its time comes too.

[Chorus] (melodic, warm bloom)

So I let the shadows fade —
let them melt into the haze.
I choose the light,
the prayer, the love —
the quiet home
my soul reclaims.

[Bridge] (progressive rise)

And in the hush
between two heartbeats —
a brighter path unfolds.
Every breath becomes forgiveness,
every step
returns me home.

Lalu Metev, December 12, 2025  

I begin in the threshold where a word is not yet born and silence still remembers its breath. I write to shape what insists on being carried forward — not as ornament, but as revealed truth. My practice moves like inner weather: shifts of memory, tenderness, and the questions that refuse to leave us. Genres are rooms of one house — poems, essays, fragments, genealogies, musical sketches — each a voice in a single resonant chord. Even silence has its essential place in that chord. I attend to the small gestures that disclose identity; to the secret bridges between private life and collective memory; to the quiet architecture of the spirit that needs no ceremony. My aim is language that opens rather than decorates — windows through which readers encounter their own inner sky. Form, conscience and intimacy guide me: introspection keeps me honest; conceptual shape grants the invisible weight; moral sensibility anchors each phrase. My professions — poet, publicist, jurist — lean together: law sharpens clarity, poetry humbles certainty, philosophy teaches listening to what is unsaid. If a single thread unites my work, it is this: to transmute vulnerability into luminous strength and to make silence a place of meaning. I am Lalu Metev — Bulgarian poet, essayist and jurist. I write to preserve what is delicate and essential in the human spirit, to follow traces of memory and dignity, and to find where the personal meets the universal. This is the path I walk; this is the voice I follow; this is the presence I offer.