whispers of a daydream: poem on longing for love

Longing for Love: The Morning That Lives in Her Heart

Longing for love isn’t always loud. Sometimes it is a whisper — a quiet ache that lives between sleep and waking. For her, longing for love arrives in the softest hour of morning, when the world hasn’t opened its eyes yet and her heart is free to confess what it wants most.

There are mornings that aren’t real, and yet they live inside us more vividly than anything we’ve ever touched.
That morning for her wasn’t a memory — it was a dream, but one that felt like it belonged to her future.

man in white tank top kissing woman in black tank top: showing a woman's longing for love
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She woke slowly, still wrapped in sleep, the world hushed around her. For a few seconds, she was not alone. In that half-dreaming space, she felt him — the man she hasn’t met yet, but believes she will. His arms around her. His warmth pressed to her back. His breath against her shoulder. A feeling of being held not as a possession, but as a place someone chooses to stay.

She didn’t dream of grand gestures or dramatic romance.
She dreamed of a morning.

A simple morning soaked in rain — the cool hush of 69 degrees, the world moving slower, softer, safer. Two people sitting by a window, coffee in their hands, laughter in their voices. Not rushing anywhere. Not trying to be perfect. Just being.

She dreams of a morning soaked in rain,

A cool hush in the air,

Sixty-nine degrees, maybe—

Where the world slows down,

And love begins softly.

They sit by a window,

Steam curling from coffee mugs,

Laughter brewing between sips,

Eyes meeting in quiet wonder.

Because real love, the way she imagines it, begins quietly.

  • With shy confessions in the brush of fingers.
  • With uncertain laughter that somehow feels like home.
  • With two strangers who become something more without even realizing when the shift happened.

Somewhere far, maybe by a river’s hum,

Two souls waking—

Not to alarms, but to each other.

Strangers once, now entangled gently

Beneath skies that remember nothing of sorrow.

She dreams of hands inching closer,

Of fingers brushing like shy confessions,

Of his voice low and uncertain,

Yet safe like home.

They talk—awkwardly at first—

About weather, wars, and silly things.

But beneath the surface,

A rhythm pulses,

A silent promise of something real.

Longing for Love in the Details of Her Imagination

She sees hands inching closer.
Fingers brushing like gentle confessions.
A voice low and uncertain, yet safe like home.

They talk awkwardly at first — about weather, wars, and silly things. But beneath the surface, a rhythm pulses, a silent promise of something real. In her dream, love doesn’t arrive with fireworks. It arrives with belonging.

She sees herself being brave one day — leaning in, closing the distance, choosing possibility over fear. She imagines the first kiss not as a fairytale climax, but as a beginning. A delicate wish planted in trembling hope — the kind that doesn’t demand certainty, only the chance to grow.

She sees herself,

Brave in that moment,

Closing the distance between them—

A breath caught between fear and hope—

As she plants a kiss,

Delicate as a wish.

It’s not just a kiss.

It’s the seed of something sacred.

A fragile bloom,

Fertile with beginnings

She still dares to believe in.

The Hope That Keeps Her Longing for Love Alive

Her dream wasn’t just about romance.
It was about belonging.

About finding the person who doesn’t wake to alarms…
but wakes to her.

She is still waiting — but not passively. She’s living, growing, believing. Her longing doesn’t make her weak; it makes her human. It means she hasn’t given up on gentle things, even in a world that often forgets them.

Somewhere inside her is the quiet faith that one day, that dream morning will no longer be a dream.

One day, she will wake —
and stay.


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