Always Better

You could have driven into someone else's driveway.
You could have tried to find the bridge another day.
I could have gone off to the fair,
or locked the door, or washed my hair.
And in a way, that would be better.
We could have chosen to ignore what we were feeling.
We could have prayed to make the wanting go away.
But what we did is that we loved, and love is always better.
I could have gone with you and left behind the cornfields.
I could have seen a world like none I'd ever known.
I could have tied my dreams to yours and
slept beside you on the moors, and who can say?
That might be better.
I could have not been where my children turned for
answers, and never seen what they've become now that they're grown.
But what I did was that I loved, and love is always better.
It is hard, it is insane, to place one love above another.
But what a choice, and what a gift, and what a blessing.
I could have never known that love like this
existed, but then you kissed me and you left and then I knew.
And what is true that we loved,
and that I loved, and that I love, and that I will always love.
And love is always better.

You and I are just one second.
Spinning by in one split second.
You and I have just one second.
And a million miles to go.