Unbroken By Time

I wrote a thousand verses in silence
Your name carved into every page
The city moved, the years consumed
But my heart remained in that first glance
While you walked toward another life
(I built altars in the shadows)
Living in the echo of a promise
(That time itself could not erase)

Hum
I saw you in the crowd, untouchable
Wrapped in the safety of reason
I lived through fever, through fleeting hands
But none could burn the ghost of you away
Every season, every decade
I wore devotion like a wound
A secret vow beneath the ruins
Waiting for the moment you’d return

The world called me a fool
(Chained to a memory fading)
But in the silence of my longing
I heard eternity speaking

Through the weight of years
Through the shadows of loss
I carried the fire of us
Not a boy’s desire
But a man’s undying truth
Love survives, though torn, though scarred
It rises again
Unbroken by time

You chose the path of certainty
A home built on reason
Yet even behind your eyes
I saw the ember still alive
I grew old in waiting
But never in surrender
Every wrinkle on my skin
Was the scripture of my faith

Now the years have bowed us both
Our bodies frail, our voices slower
Yet when your hand touched mine again
The decades burned away
Not youth, not fever
But a flame matured in silence
A love that defied death itself
Reborn on the river of time

Through the weight of years
Through the shadows of loss
I carried the fire of us
Not a boy’s desire
But a man’s undying truth
Love survives, though torn, though scarred
It rises again
Unbroken by time

And when the world calls it madness
I call it destiny fulfilled
Through sickness, through the flood of years
I loved you still
And I keep loving you