We Kept Choosing Us

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

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

Then we lost your brother

And later I lost my dad

Two people we loved Two goodbyes we never wanted to have

Another reminder that the people we love

Can change everything overnight

And now you’re in Nashville

And I’m here at home

Two little hearts upstairs And miles between our phones

I miss you in the little moments But this is where we

are right now

And somehow

we’ll find our way

We keep choosing us

That’s what we do

Through every damn storm We find our way back through

So whatever comes

Whatever we face

I’ll keep choosing you

For the rest of my days

Because through every high

And every low

One thing I’ve always known

You are home

And wherever life takes us

We’ll figure it out

Together

We’ll keep choosing us