Choosing Us

(hummmmm) It was 2020, we were making plans

Thinking we knew where life would land Then life started changing in

ways we couldn’t see

And nothing looked quite like we thought it’d be There were long

work nights and sleepless eyes Trying to build a life,

trying to get it right

Trying to make a family,

trying to make a home

Never knowing what was coming down the road

And I don’t know how we did it

I don’t know how we stayed

But every time the world got heavy

You still reached for my hand

We kept choosing us

When life got hard

When the road got long

When we couldn’t see the stars

We kept showing up

With whatever we had

A little bit of hope

When everything went bad

Then Leo came in 2021

And suddenly we were somebody’s whole world

Then Mila came in 2023

Two little hearts,

two little pieces of me and you

Exhausted mornings, endless nights

Learning how to hold it all together

Giving everything we had

Trying to make their world feel better

And life kept testing what we thought we knew

With hospital rooms

and difficult news

Then we lost your brother

And later I lost my dad

And then my mom’s heart stopped Another call,

another fight

We’ve watched our families struggle

We’ve carried grief and fear

And somehow Leo kept growing Mila kept laughing down the hall

Life kept happening around us Even when we weren’t ready at all

And I look at us and wonder How did we get this

much life

Into just six years?

We keep choosing us

That’s what we do

Through every damn storm

We find our way back through

We’ve said goodbye

We’ve started again

We’ve watched some doors close We’ve watched new ones begin

And if life asks us

To do it all again

I’ll take your hand

Like I did back then

Because through every high

And every low

You are home

And I’ll keep choosing us