Words That Stayed with Me

If only time had listened,

I would have met you sooner,

Before life made me count regrets like fallen stars.

I wasted years dreaming,

Wondering how to be enough for you,

Wishing I could be the choice you'd never have to think twice about.

I never needed courage,

only a reason to speak

and sometimes, it took a little weakness to tell the truth.

But every word, drunk or sober,

was exactly what my heart meant.

If ever life asked me to choose

between you and the world,

between dreams I built and the love I found

I would have chosen you.

Every single time.

You changed my life without even knowing,

and I'm left here, wishing for a little more time,

a little more of you.

You'll never know how much you meant to me.

And maybe that's the saddest kind of beautiful.