A Lifetime

I don’t just want a start with you

Not just the first hello we knew

I want you in the silence too

In morning light and midnight blue

I don’t need perfect, I don’t need grand

Just you reaching out, holding my hand

I want you in my beginning

In the middle where love keeps spinning

Through the still and through the storm

Where ordinary feels like home

You’re not just a page I’d turn

You’re the fire that always burns

You’re not a part of me for a season

You’re the reason, you’re the reason—

For my lifetime

I want you in the quiet days

In awkward words and sideways grace

In every sigh, in every fight

And when we find our way each night

We don’t need perfect, we just need real

The kind of love you grow, not steal

I want you in my beginning

In the middle where love keeps spinning

Through the highs and through the ache

Through every promise that we make

You’re not just a fleeting line

You’re the thread that holds my spine

You’re not a spark that fades with time

You’re the light I’ll call mine—

For a lifetime

Let the world spin, let the pages fall

But you and I—we’ll have it all

Not just the moment, but the meaning

Not just love, but the believing

I want you in my beginning

My middle, and my end, no thinning

You were never just a phase

You’re the whole of all my days

You’re not a memory I outgrow

You’re the story I’ll always know

You were never just passing through

You are my always true—

For a lifetime