You promised your love
yet still I couldn't trust
I kept my distance
even looked away
turned my back and started walking,
but I couldn't get far...

A part of me wanted, longed
dreams gone returned, shortening my night
respawning hope; a new flame kindled,
ignited...

A soft glow as it burned within,
seen in my eyes
and I couldn't hide what I felt
one day rolled into the next
I waited, expecting pain,
or perhaps a forked tongue's deceitful compliment
but it never came

Your smile was genuine
your love real, but how?
I didn't think love existed anymore
yet time passed, love grew
then I realized the depth of my love...

You got into my heart, breathed life into it
and so it beats once more
Forgive my doubts as I still wonder,
but I look over my shoulder
and there you are, still by my side,
smiling...

What is to come???
This I have no answer for
but what I feel now lifts me up,
makes me fly, and you fly with me
One might want forever,
or at least for the rest of this life
which was given to us
and perhaps for each other

You love me, I still don't know why
You hold me when I cry, or when I fret
comforting me,
sharing life with me,
and showing me, perhaps for the first time in my life...
what it means to truly live,
I know now that I love you
unafraid any longer of the nightmares
that haunted me for so long

So tomorrow when I wake
I'll hold my breath
and when I see you asleep next to me my angel,
I will only watch you,
kiss you on the forehead
and wonder what you're dreaming...

You wake up, look me in the eyes
smile for me,
"I was just dreaming about us," you whisper,
"it was our wedding day, remember?"
"Yes, my love, I do, seems it was only yesterday."
We lay back down, drift off to sleep,
you in my arms...here with me
and we never have to sleep again...

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