Portraits Rearranged

Moving on
Was always my next move
My own free will
With nothing left to prove
I knew that you would be
Only a call away
So I got in and drove
Day after day after day

And what I know now
I failed to see then somehow
Is how distracted we would be

And how so many things would change
And yet, some things would stay the same
And all the things I'd missed

You taught me how to give
You showed me how to live
And when life brought disaster
You handed me gentleness and laughter
And now I so clearly see
All the sacrifice that you've always made for me

And what I know now
I was too selfish to see then somehow
Is how much you've always cared

While so many things have changed
And yet, some things have stayed the same
And you and I, we grow close
Even as the distance grows

And when my thoughts turn back home
As they so often do
I think of where we were way back then
And I see that time through different eyes
And now I'm so humbled by your love

And what I know now
Of what I never had a doubt
Is the love we've always shared

And through the years our lives have changed
Our portraits rearranged

Faces will change in years to come
As we all return to where we're from
The distance is overcome
After all these years
We carry on, and live as one