Pieces of my heart walk around

Time don’t ask… it just takes…

Chase,

You were quiet, eyes so deep

Carried weight you didn’t speak

That half grin, that knowing look

Like a story in a closed book

You grew up before your time

Strong and steady, sharp as a line

I still see that little boy

In every choice, in every voice

You don’t say much, never did

Always handled what life gives

But I wonder late at night

If you’re really doing alright

Jaycee

You were laughter in my bones

Now I hear it through a phone

Used to tell me everything

Now it’s silence in between

I don’t know you like before

Standing on the other shore

Still I’d give my world to see

The girl who used to run to me

You call when the world falls down

Need a hand, need me around

I’ll still answer every time

Even if it breaks this heart of mine

Pieces of my heart walk around

In different lives, in different towns

I let you go but I still feel

Every memory, every real

No matter where this life may start

You’ll always be my beating heart

Cayden,

You grew taller overnight

Found your voice, you found your fight

Walking proud, no fear inside

Living loud, you don’t hide

Not my baby, not my boy

You’re your own, your strength, your joy

Still I watch you from afar

A shining, stubborn, fearless star

You don’t need my hand no more

You’re already out that door

But I hope you always know

You’ve got a place to come back home

I held your hands when you were small

Now I can’t hold them at all

Life keeps pulling you away

While I’m begging time to stay

I did my best, I gave my all

Tried to catch you when you’d fall

Now I’m learning how to stand

With empty space where you once ran

Pieces of my heart out in the world

My boy, my mirror, my wild one curled

You don’t need me like before

But I’ll be right here at the door

No matter how far you all roam

My love’s the place you’ll call home

Pieces of my heart still beat in you

In everything you say and do

Even when you’re far from me

You’re still my whole identity

I may not be where you are

But I’m with you in every scar

No matter how this life may start

You’ll always be my beating heart

You don’t outgrow a mother’s love…

You just learn how to carry it…