Pizza Pan Promises

Pizza Pan Promises

Gold’s Gym Brooklyn, front desk glow

You in turquoise, purple though

I’m blending smoothies, thinking I’m just

Doing my job, doing it well, that’s all I know

Trader Joe’s bags under the screen

You’d leave your groceries there with me

I didn’t see what was right in front

I was busy trying to survive my dreams

I’d been walking miles with nowhere to land

Sleeping on floors with a life half-planned

Indiana roads, New York nights

Just trying not to disappear

I didn’t have much, but you saw me

No act, no mask, no armor on me

I was standing there with nothing to prove

For the first time, I felt true

You didn’t love where I was

You loved where I was going

Eggs on the floor, pizza pan morning

And I finally felt chosen

Rockefeller lights, December cold

Mariah singing, crowd too close

Couldn’t hear you, couldn’t talk

Worst first date, yeah, I already know

You said it wasn’t great, I felt that too

So I let you see what I never do

Studio walls, borrowed chairs

A life half-built, but I didn’t care

I cooked you dinner like it meant my name

Roommates gone, nervous hands

Thought you’d leave when the night went quiet

But you stayed, yeah, you stayed right there

Morning came, no pots, no plan

Eggs on the floor from a pizza pan

You laughed, not once looked away

That’s when love finally made sense to me

I didn’t have proof, I didn’t have pride

But you saw the man on the other side

Not who I was that broken year

But who I could be if you stayed near

I didn’t have much, but you saw me

No act, no mask, no armor on me

I was standing there with nothing to prove

For the first time, I felt true

You didn’t love where I was

You loved where I was going

Eggs on the floor, pizza pan morning

And I finally felt chosen

I told you if I ever had a home

Four walls that were really my own

If you helped me get there, I swear

I’d give you everything I am

Not promises, not borrowed plans

Just steady love and working hands

Every step, every climb

I’d make your future safe with mine

I didn’t have much, but you saw me

And that faith rewrote my story

From Borough Hall dreams to a family name

You gave my life a deeper flame

Ten years gone, still standing strong

Little boy laughing, singing along

If love is proof of where you’ve been

Then Laura, you believed me in

Gold’s Gym echoes fade with time

But that first year still lives in mine

If I ever make it anywhere at all

It started with eggs on a kitchen floor