I Kept This Hidden For Two Years... You Finally Need To Hear It | Sheikh Hamdan | Fazza Poems

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]I kept this hidden for two years. I want you to sit with that for a moment before I say anything else because the weight of it, the specific gravity of two years of knowing something and choosing silence over and over again is part of the truth. And the truth is what I promised you. And so we begin there. two years uh 700 and some days of carrying this in the private interior where I keep the things that are too real to release before I am certain they deserve to be released. Before I am certain the person they belong to is ready to receive them. Before I am certain that I am ready to be the person who gives them. Two years of waking up in the early hours when the desert is still dark and feeling this thing pressing against the inside of me and making a choice sometimes consciously and sometimes just by the weight of habit to hold it for one more day to wait to be sure to not say the true thing until I was absolutely certain that saying it was the right thing and now I am certain now I have arrived at the uh place where certainty lives And it looks exactly the way I always thought it would look.

[00:01:16]Quiet still, completely without ambiguity, the way the desert looks just before the sun comes up when the darkness is beginning to soften at the edges. And you know, without being told that the light is coming and that nothing about the coming of it is uncertain, I am certain. And you finally need to hear this.

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[00:02:13]And before we continue, tell me something in the comments. What is the one memory you find yourself returning to over and over again? But first, I want to tell you about the hiding. I want to tell you about what two years of keeping something this real actually feels like from the inside does because I think it is important and I think you deserve the full account. Not just the conclusion but the entire journey to the conclusion.

[00:02:42]The hiding is not what most people imagine when they hear that word. It is not dramatic. It is not the hiding of shame or of something that needs to be concealed because it is wrong or dangerous or would cause harm if it came to light. It is the hiding of something precious. the hiding of something you are not yet ready to share. Because sharing it would make it real in a new way. Real in the way that things become real when they exist outside of you in the air between people in the space that is not just yours. And you are not yet ready for that particular kind of real.

[00:03:22]You are not yet ready for the vulnerability of it. for the exposure of having said the the true thing and having it exist in the world where you cannot take it back where it is either received or it is not where it lands somewhere and you have to live with where it lands and what it does when it arrives. I was not ready for that for two years. I was not ready and I held this thing inside me the way you hold something you are not yet ready to give carefully with both hands making sure not to drop it making sure it stays intact for when the moment arrives that you are finally brave enough to pass it across. The moment has arrived. I am finally brave enough and the bravery does not feel the way I expected it to feel. I expected it to feel like effort, like pushing through something, resistant, like overcoming.

[00:04:19]But it does not feel like any of that.

[00:04:22]It feels like release, like the thing that has been pressing against the inside of me for 2 years has finally been given permission to move. And it is moving now. And the movement itself is such a relief that I keep stopping in the middle of trying to say this to just feel the relief of it. The relief of no longer holding. The relief of the hands finally opening. The relief of two years of carefully maintained silence becoming this becoming words becoming the truth given finally to the person it was always about and always for. You need to hear this. Let me tell you why I say that. Not because I need to say it, though I do need to say it. And the need has been building for 2 years and has reached a point where keeping it inside has started to feel not like wisdom but like waste. I say you need to hear it because I believe something about you that I have believed for two years and have never said. I believe that you are someone who has been moving through your life with a particular quality of not knowing. Not knowing the specific thing that I know about you. Not knowing what you look like from the outside when you are being entirely yourself. Not knowing the effect you have when you are not thinking about the effect you have. Not knowing how extraordinary you are in the ordinary moments, in the unguarded moments. in the moments that exist simply because you are alive and present and entirely yourself without performance or calculation or awareness of being observed. You do not know what those moments look like from where I have been standing for two years. You have not had access to that view. And that seems to me like something that should be corrected, like something you deserve to have. The view of yourself that I have been carrying, the understanding of what you actually are that I have been holding while you move through your life, not knowing that someone was seeing it so clearly and finding it so completely extraordinary that they could not stop thinking about it for 700 days and counting. I saw something two years ago. That is where this begins. That is the actual beginning. Even though the beginning at the time did not announce itself as a beginning did not arrive with any indication that I was standing inside a moment that was going to divide my life into before and after. It arrived quietly the way the most important moments always arrive quietly without ceremony without preparation without giving you the chance to brace yourself for what they are about to do to the interior of your life. I was not braced.

[00:07:20]I was simply present. And then the moment happened and then everything was different. And then two years passed in which I kept the difference to myself and tried to understand it and tried to decide what to do with it and arrived finally here at the giving of it at the words that have been waiting two years for permission to exist outside of me.

[00:07:45]What I saw was you in a moment that was not meant for me. A private moment, an unguarded moment, the kind of moment that reveals the actual texture of a person rather than the texture they have chosen to present. You did not know I was paying attention. That is the crucial detail. You did not know anyone was watching and so you were not performing anything for any audience.

[00:08:10]And what I was seeing was was not a version of you shaped by awareness of observation, but the raw and completely honest version. The version that exists in the spaces between performances. The version that most people never get to see because most people only encounter the version you offer deliberately.

[00:08:32]I encounter the version you did not offer, the version that simply was. And what it was, what you were in that moment was so genuinely and completely yourself that something in me that had been running at a certain quiet level of distance from the world suddenly came to a full stop. Not gradually, not with warning, a full stop. The way the desert stops when the wind drops and everything goes still and the silence arrives all at once and is complete. I stood very still and I looked at you and I felt something recognize something. That is the only way I have ever been able to describe it. In the two years I have been trying to find the right language for it. Something in me recognize something in you. Not in the casual way of finding something familiar.

[00:09:26]In the way of finding something you have been looking for without knowing you were looking. In the way of a frequency, your body has been tuned to suddenly finding its match. Something in me said quietly and with complete authority, I know this. I know what this is. I have been waiting for this without knowing what I was waiting for. And now it is here. And the knowing of it is so complete and so immediate that there is nothing to deliberate about. Nothing to weigh or measure or calculate. Just the knowing, just the recognition, just the standing in the full reality of it and letting it be as large as it actually was. And it was very large. It has been very large for 2 years. That is the other thing about keeping something this real hidden. It does not stay the size it was when you first found it. It grows. Not in the way of something out of control, not in a way that frightened me, but in the way of something that is simply true and alive and therefore continuing to become more fully itself the longer it exists. What I saw in that moment two years ago was the seed of the understanding.

[00:10:44]What I have now after two years of returning to it in the quiet hours and feeling it continue to deepen and clarify and become more precisely itself is the full flowering of it. The complete thing, the understanding that has had to two years to settle into me and become part of the architecture of how I see everything. Part of the lens through which the world reaches me. You are in the lens now. You have been there for two years and everything I look at has you somewhere in the quality of the looking. I want to tell you what I have noticed in those two years.

[00:11:24]What I have been collecting quietly in the interior space where I keep the things that matter most to me. I have been collecting you, collecting moments, collecting observations, collecting the small specific details that accumulate into a full picture of who someone is when they are not trying to be anyone in particular. The way you move through a space, the way you listen, which is one of the things I noticed earliest and have never stopped noticing because most people listen while preparing their response and you listen as if the listening itself is the point as if receiving what someone is saying fully and completely is the thing you are there for and everything else can wait. I have never felt more heard than I felt in in the moments when you were listening. Not recognized, not observed, heard. There is a difference between those things that is as significant as any difference I know. And you live permanently on the heard side of it. And the effect of that uh on a person who has spent most of his life being recognized but rarely truly heard is something I could spend another two years trying to find the language for.

[00:12:45]The way you love things. I I noticed that early too and I have not stopped noticing it because the way you love things is one of the most specific and beautiful qualities I have ever witnessed in another person. Your love is not careful. It is not managed or measured or deployed at a safe distance.

[00:13:06]Your love goes all the way in. It commits.

[00:13:11]It gives itself over entirely to whatever it has decided to care about with a fullness and a sincerity that I find both moving and humbling. I have watched you love things and felt in those moments like I was seeing something essential.

[00:13:27]Not just about you, but about what love is supposed to look like. When it has not been taught to be afraid. When it has not been trained by disappointment to keep something in reserve. When it still trusts itself enough to go all the way, your love goes all the way. And I have been standing at the edge of that for 2 years watching it and feeling something in me that had learned to be careful that had built systems for managing how much it let in and how much it let show.

[00:14:00]Feeling that something remember a different possibility, a less careful one, a fuller one. The possibility of going all the way too. I have been doing something else for two years that I need to tell you about. I have been writing.

[00:14:16]Not just the poems I have shared, not just the words I have given to the world, but the other words, the private ones, the ones written in the darkest hours when the only honest thing available is language. And I have needed to put this somewhere. Needed to give it a form outside of me so I could see it clearly. So I could understand what it actually was and whether it was what I thought it was. and whether it was going to be something I could eventually say out loud. I have been writing about you for two years without ever intending for those words to reach you. They were not written for an audience.

[00:14:58]They were written for the same reason the desert receives the dawn every morning without asking whether the light is ready.

[00:15:07]Because the truth needed somewhere to go because the feeling needed to be given form. Because keeping something entirely inside even when you are someone who has made a practice of the interior life even when you have built systems for managing the interior with great care and competence eventually becomes insufficient. Eventually the thing you are keeping out grows the space you have made for it and you have to either give it more room or give it to the person it belongs to. For two years I gave it more room. Now I am giving it to you. Here is what those private pages say. Here is the substance of two years of trying to name what I saw in you and what it did to me and what it has continued to do in every day that has passed since.

[00:15:59]They say that you are one of the genuinely rare things. Not rare in the way that people use that word casually.

[00:16:06]Not rare as a compliment reaching for the right superlative but rare in the way that means actually uncommon.

[00:16:14]Actually not something you encounter often in a life regardless of how wide that life is or how many people move through it or how carefully you pay attention. I have paid careful attention for my entire adult life. I have moved through a world that brings many people to me and I to them. I have had the particular experience of a life that is lived partly in public which means encountering people constantly and having the opportunity to observe human beings in many of their various expressions and in all of that what I have found is that genuine realness is uncommon the quality of being entirely and unself-consciously yourself of having no gap between the interior person and the exterior presentation of moving through the world with the same face you wear when you are alone.

[00:17:08]That quality is genuinely uncommon. And you have it. You have it completely. You have it in a way that I noticed in the first moment I saw you unguarded and have not stopped noticing for 2 years because it is not something that fades with familiarity. It is not a quality that reveals itself to be less than it appeared. Once you get closer, it deepens.

[00:17:35]The closer I have looked, the more of it I have found.

[00:17:39]The more time has passed, the more certain I have become that what I saw in that first unguarded moment was not a glimpse of something occasional. It was a glimpse of the actual constant thing.

[00:17:52]The thing that is there all the time.

[00:17:55]The thing that is simply who you are.

[00:17:58]There is a specific moment from the two years that I want to tell you about. A moment that is not the beginning moment and not this moment, but something that happened in between that I have returned to more times than I can count because it crystallized something that I had been feeling but had not yet been able to say even to myself. We were in the same space and you did not know how closely I was paying attention.

[00:18:27]You were in the middle of something ordinary, something that required nothing from you except presence. And I was watching the way you inhabited that ordinary moment.

[00:18:39]And I felt something happened in my chest that I recognized from literature more than from life. From the poems written by people who understood something about the quality of certain moments that most language fails to capture. I felt the specific feeling of understanding that something in front of you is precious. Not valuable in the way of objects or achievements, precious in the way of things that are irreplaceable.

[00:19:08]Things that exist in their particular form only once.

[00:19:13]Things that if lost could not be found again in exactly this quality, in exactly this form anywhere else in the world. I looked at you in that ordinary moment and felt the full weight of the preciousness of you. And then I went home and wrote for three hours and still did not feel that I had found the words.

[00:19:34]And then I kept the words hidden for two more years until now. Until now, I kept it hidden because I kept asking myself whether I was ready, whether you were ready, whether the moment was right, whether there would be a better time, a clearer moment, a more appropriate occasion. And uh the thing about those questions is that they can be asked indefinitely.

[00:20:00]There is always a reason to wait. If waiting is what you are determined to do, there is always another day. You could say it always another moment that might be more perfect than this one. And I have finally understood in the particular way you understand things that require time to become clear that the perfect moment is not coming. That the perfect moment is always this one.

[00:20:25]That the only moment available for saying the truth thing is the moment in which you are standing. And any other moment is either past or hypothetical.

[00:20:36]And both of those are not real. And the true thing deserves to be given in the real deserves to be given now. And so I am giving it now after two years finally and completely and without the reservation that has been characteristic of every day that came before this one.

[00:20:55]I want to tell you what the two years have taught me.

[00:21:00]What keeping this hidden while continuing to live has shown me about what it means to know something true and carry it privately. It has taught me that the things you keep inside do not stay still. They move. They grow. They continue to develop in the dark. The way certain things develop in the dark. They become more themselves.

[00:21:22]And this feeling, this specific and complete and entirely certain feeling about you has become more itself over two years in a way that has made the keeping of it progressively more difficult and the giving of it progressively more necessary. I reached the point some weeks ago where keeping it was no longer a choice I was making.

[00:21:46]It had become a pressure, a constant and insistent pressure from the inside that was telling me in the language of the body, the language that is older and more honest than words, that the time for keeping was over. That the time for giving had arrived, that the person this belonged to needed to receive it, not for my sake, but for their own. Because you deserve to know.

[00:22:12]You deserve to have this information about yourself. about what what you are about what you have been to me about what two years of seeing you clearly and carrying that seeing in private has made absolutely certain. You deserve to have it not because it will necessarily change anything but because truth has value independent of what it changes.

[00:22:36]Because knowing you are seen has value independent of what the seeing leads to.

[00:22:42]Because you are someone who gives so much of this quality of sing to others and who deserves to receive it back and I want to be the one who gives it.

[00:22:53]I want to be the one who says finally and clearly and with the full weight of two years of certainty behind it. I see you. I have seen you. I have been seeing you for two years and what I see is extraordinary. And you deserve to know that it is there. that someone has been looking, that someone has found what they were looking for, and it was you.

[00:23:17]It has always been you. And after two years of keeping that hidden, you finally need to hear it. You finally need to have it. It is yours. It has always been yours. I am just the one who held it until I was brave enough to give it back. Before this video ends completely, let me say one thing.

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