This Is True

There is always pain in our past
and it breaks my heart to know of yours.
I sit here and wonder why anyone
would ever harbor desire to hurt someone
who holds my own heart so tenderly...

Its very strange to me
and you know me- I've got a troubled past
of my own with hurts like you've not known.
Together we forge new paths today
forfeiting the grip we have on pains of yesterday.

Those we hurt and those who hurt us bought
us new opportunities and I'll be damned
before I squander this bright future its left in its wake-
and it is before us to take, so take my hand
never let go as we strike out into what is not known.

it was written in the stars, my love
we met according to a Heavenly time and place
it was seen fit and deemed we should cross
our wandering paths to find someone
who was a chance we were both willing to take,

I love you.
Forever and a day as they say.
Until the last breathe my lungs will take
because I want this more than anything, to be
the one who scratches "find her" off your list.

With you I feel the sun that teaches me to hope,
with you I feel the sadness melt away,
with you I feel wind that teaches me to fly
and to live with you by my side
is surely what it means to truly feel alive.