-The 'untranslatable' Japanese phrase 'Koi No Yokan' is 'the premonition of love'.

-Koi no Yokan resonates so deeply in Japanese culture. It captures the way love can be sensed before it is spoken, the way two people can feel a quiet shift before anything is declared. The focus is on the premonition, the potential, rather than immediate action.

-In a world that often rushes toward certainty, Koi no Yokan reminds us of the beauty of the unknown. Not everything needs to be defined in an instant. Some of the most profound connections in life begin not with a declaration, but with a feeling a quiet whisper that love, in some form, is on its way.

("The Premonition of Love")

We met like silence meets the sea
no crash, just tide,
pulling gently at the edges
of something neither of us could name.

Not love, not yet,
but a whisper through the bones,
a quiet certainty
threaded in the glance we shared.

You didn’t need to speak
your presence was a memory
I had yet to live.
A future folded inside a smile.

In that moment,
you weren’t a stranger
just someone I hadn’t loved yet.