What Time Couldn’t Take

I was the one you came to

When your heart was on the line

You asked me what I thought of him

I told you you’d be fine

I smiled like I meant it

Said I just wanted you safe

But I buried every word I felt

So you could walk away

I chose your happiness

Over everything I was

That’s a kind of love

That never makes a sound

I loved you then in silence

I love you still out loud

Time can change the seasons

But it never changed us

We were never written wrong

Just written too late

Some loves don’t fade

They wait

Twenty-five years later

You said my name like before

We talked about the lives we lived

And the ones we never got

You said your heart was broken

I said mine was too

But you were never the reason

It broke the way it did

It was because I loved you — I always did

We were young and trying

To do the right thing fast

Never knowing some loves

Aren’t meant to pass

I loved you then in silence

I love you still the same

Distance learned our faces

But not our names

We were never a mistake

Just a moment misplaced

Some loves don’t fade

They wait

There’s no regret in loving you

Not once, not ever, not now

If I had to carry it alone

I’d still choose that vow

Some hearts don’t need a future

To prove they were real

They just need time

To remember how they feel

I loved you then, I love you now

I always will somehow

Not to claim you

Not to change your life

Just to say the truth out loud

We didn’t lose, we didn’t break

We didn’t run from fate

Some loves don’t fade

They wait

And they stay.