The Wrong Time for Right Love

It started with coffee breaks and hallway talks,

A couple of coworkers trying to kill the clock.

You’d make me laugh on the hardest days,

Somehow knew exactly what to say.

We never went looking for anything more,

Just two married hearts behind office doors.

Trading stories about kids and dreams,

Never knowing what it all would mean.

Nobody crossed a line, nobody made a move,

But some feelings don’t ask permission to.

You became my favorite hello,

The one I looked for every day.

The friend I never knew I needed,

The reason work didn’t feel the same.

And maybe in another life,

We would’ve had our chance to see

What happens when two hopeless romantics

Fall in love at the wrong time completely.

You were everything I wanted,

And I was everything you needed.

But some people find their soulmate

After forever’s already promised.

You remembered things nobody else would hear,

The little details I mentioned throughout the year.

And I could tell by the way you smiled,

You felt that pull too once in a while.

We talked about books and old regrets,

The lives we’d lived and the roads we’d left.

Somewhere between friendship and goodbye,

A thousand unspoken feelings survived.

Nobody was wrong, nobody cheated fate,

We just met a little too late.

You became my favorite hello,

The one I looked for every day.

The friend I never knew I needed,

The reason work didn’t feel the same.

And maybe in another life,

We would’ve had our chance to see

What happens when two hopeless romantics

Fall in love at the wrong time completely.

You were everything I wanted,

And I was everything you needed.

But some people find their soulmate

After forever’s already promised.

So we’ll keep talking about the weather,

Pretending we’re just friends forever.

While a part of me will always know

What neither of us can let show.

Because loving you isn’t the hard part,

It’s learning how to let you stay

Exactly where you are.

You’ll always be my favorite hello,

And maybe my hardest goodbye.

The person who taught me some loves exist

Without ever becoming mine.

We’re two hopeless romantics,

Caught between our hearts and our lives.

And if there’s any tragedy here,

It’s not that we loved—

It’s that we met at the wrong time.