Home is You

 

Twenty years back, just kids in disguise,

Wild hearts, sharp smiles, truth hid in our eyes.

We found each other early, too soon to understand,

How love can slip away, when time won’t take your hand.

We fit like a secret the world couldn’t keep,

But timing stood guard while we learned how to bleed.

So fate pulled us sideways, said, “Go—learn the cost,

You’ll find what is real, only after it’s lost.”

It sent us through fire, through nights carved in doubt,

Through breaking ourselves just to figure things out.

We loved and we lost and we stood on our own,

Learning strength is built when you’re left all alone.

And still—after detours, wrong turns, and delay,

After swearing we’d never come back the same way,

Every version of me: cracked, weathered, and torn,

Kept walking the road that led here, reborn.

Because you are my home—not the place, but the truth,

The shelter I earned after fighting my youth.

After all of the miles, the twists and the bends,

I’d walk through those storms again and again.

We grew up in fragments, we fell and we rose,

Collected wounds; paid the debts that we owed.

Every goodbye left a mark we could visibly trace,

Every tear carved a line, time could never erase.

This is our fairytale wrapped up in flame,

It’s choosing each other, not just photos in frames.

When the past clears its throat, when anxieties appear,

I won’t run away—I’m staying right here.

So, hold me in moments both heavy and light,

In the calm of the day and the dark of the night.

I won’t hide from the truth, I won’t start over new,

I’ll keep choosing this life, I’ll keep choosing you.

Because you are home, my beginning, my end,

My once and my always, my lover, my friend.

And if love demands payment in sorrow and pain,

I’ll pay it in full just to choose you again.

©️ Wonderland Wanderess 2025