More Than A Word

People use that word so easily…

They throw it around like it weighs nothing.

But what I feel for you…

doesn't fit inside something that small.

So I won’t say it.

I’ll show you.

You walked in quiet like the sunrise

No warning, no grand parade

Just a calm inside the chaos

Where every fear I had just faded

I was drifting through the darkness

Like a ship with no clear shore

Then you stood there in the silence

And suddenly I wanted more

Not more of the world

Not more of the fight

Just more of the way

You make wrong feel right

There’s a word people use for this feeling

But it’s worn thin from being said too much

So I’ll skip the word and give you the meaning

Every promise, every moment, every touch

If the sky falls down around us

If the stars all fade from view

Call it whatever you want to call it

All I know…

is I choose you

I’ve seen storms tear through a lifetime

Watched good hearts break in two

But somehow through all the madness

The calm was always you

When my mind runs into shadows

And the road feels hard to see

Your voice cuts through the silence

Like a lighthouse calling me

Not some fairytale

Not some perfect rhyme

Just two stubborn souls

Standing side by side

There’s a word people use for this feeling

But it’s worn thin from being said too much

So I’ll skip the word and give you the meaning

Every promise, every moment, every touch

If the sky falls down around us

If the stars all fade from view

Call it whatever you want to call it

All I know…

is I choose you

When the years start writing silver

In the story of our hair

And the mirror shows the miles

Of every road we chose to share

When the noise of life grows quiet

And the crowd has faded through

If there’s only one voice left beside me

I still hope

it’s you

If my memory fades one day

If my heartbeat slows to rest

If the years erase the story

Carved inside my chest

My soul will still remember

The moment life felt true

The day the world grew brighter

Standing next to you

There’s a word people use for this feeling

But no word could carry what you mean

So I’ll spend my lifetime proving

What every heartbeat in me sees

Through the fire and through the years

Through the battles we walk through

You don’t need a word from me

You already know

I choose you

Some feelings are too big for language.

This is one of them.