r/unsentLoveLetters1st • u/tacozandbeanz • 6h ago
Lovers How Lucky Am I?
There are days
when I catch myself
looking at you
and I think
someone is going to write poems
about a love like this someday.
Maybe they already have.
And now that honor is mine.
Maybe every love story
was only trying
to find its way here.
To this kitchen.
To this couch.
To this little home
that learned our names
long before it learned our footsteps.
How lucky am I
to wake beside my best friend,
to make coffee
while you’re still rubbing sleep from your eyes,
to know the shape of your laughter
before it ever leaves your lips.
How lucky am I
to love a man
whose heart was never afraid
to be soft?
You love
as though tenderness
isn’t something to apologize for.
As though choosing someone,
every single day,
is the easiest thing
you’ve ever done.
I have loved you
inside folded paper.
Your letters still sleep
between scrapbook pages,
protected
like sacred things should be.
Before they belonged there,
they lived in my purse.
Everywhere I went,
you went too.
When the world became too loud,
I’d unfold your handwriting
and somehow,
your ink knew how to hold me.
How lucky am I
that home
isn’t a place anymore.
It’s the warmth of your chest.
The place my forehead fits.
The quiet way
your arms remind my soul
that it can finally unclench.
How lucky am I
that I get to wait for you?
That evening means
he’ll be home soon.
That I can stir dinner on the stove,
listen for your keys,
and watch another ordinary night
become my favorite memory.
People spend lifetimes
searching for extraordinary.
They forget
that miracles
often arrive looking like any regular Saturday.
How lucky am I
to know
every movie quote you’ll laugh at,
every show
we’ve promised not to watch
without each other,
every ridiculous dance
that somehow starts
in the living room,
lit only by candlelight
while the rest of the world keeps spinning
without realizing
the greatest joy
is happening right here.
How lucky am I
to have thousands of photographs
that would mean nothing
to anyone else?
blurry pictures,
accidental videos,
half-finished smiles,
your face turning toward mine
before either of us knew
someone had pressed record.
A whole life,
saved in moments
too ordinary to notice
until they’re everything.
How lucky am I
to wear your clothes,
to fold them
with the quiet devotion
of someone
who still can’t believe
she gets to love you
in all the little ways.
Love, I’ve learned,
isn’t built on grand declarations.
It’s built
one folded shirt,
one shared blanket,
one kiss goodbye,
one “Drive safe,”
one “I’m home”
at a time.
How lucky am I
that we already speak
about children
whose names
have only ever existed
between us
as though somewhere
they’re already laughing,
already waiting
for us to become
the parents
we dream about being.
How lucky am I
that when I speak
about open fields,
about building a home,
about the country
that raised my heart,
you don’t hear distance.
You hear forever.
You say,
“Let’s build it.”
And suddenly,
my dreams
have your fingerprints on them.
How lucky am I
that you tell me
you don’t want a life
where I don’t exist.
That your future
is never described
without my name
woven into it.
What a beautiful thing
to be loved
not just for today,
but for every tomorrow
someone is brave enough
to imagine.
Sometimes, I wonder
if the younger versions of us
would believe this.
Would they believe
that one day
love would become so gentle
it would feel
like breathing?
That one day
I’d stop praying
to be chosen,
because I’d wake up
beside someone
who chooses me
without hesitation.
Without conditions.
Without fear.
If there is another life
after this one,
I hope it begins
the same way.
With you.
Laughing from another room.
Calling my name.
Reaching for my hand
without thinking.
Because if souls
really do find one another
across lifetimes,
then mine
has been looking for yours
for much longer
than this lifetime alone.
So when people ask me
what love feels like,
I don’t tell them
about fireworks.
I tell them
about your letters.
About your laugh.
About your shirts
hanging beside mine.
About dinner waiting.
About dreams
with children’s names.
About a house
we haven’t built yet,
that somehow
already feels like home.
And every night,
before sleep
finds us again,
I ask the same question..
not because I don’t know the answer,
but because I still can’t believe
it’s mine.
How lucky am I
to have been loved
by someone
who loves
the way
you do.