When you think you’ve learned
That you are capable of making your own way
Creating your own happiness, being your own best friend
A twist of fate reveals to the one you thought had forgotten
He sees with new eyes and realizes with a broken heart
The years the two of you have spent merely existing
An awakening occurs and life for the two of you is new
You remember that holding hands can join two souls
And that being loved, not a little but unconditionally
Makes belonging sweet and kisses a promise of forever
Realizing love is a journey taken together
Enjoying the good and surviving the bad
That the future need not hold certain failure
But present a blank pallette on which to paint life
And you learn that love is real, forever is real
And you learn
And you learn...