As love grows so do we Picture perfect blurred by all the things we didn’t see The really tough pieces of life all laid out upon our table Pieces undone and rearranged Doing all that we are able Still holding hands still a place to rest Holding on through the storms when it feels like nothings left As love grows so do we From silly sun kissed teenagers movies, proms, the fair To wedding vows, tiny feet a joy for life in the air We read Corinthians so sure of ourselves Love is patient, keeps no record of wrong Love is not angered, endures all before we really see what marriage is made for Then time does what it tends to do sneaks up and sneaks right through We trade the white dress for black too often wonder how could this be true We trade all nighters with newborns for tear soaked pillows, haunting worry for parents we couldn’t know would get sick We work, we pray, frantic and still can’t fix any of it As love grows so do we we bend but we don’t break Life lived better with two still holding on, always with you Marriage isn’t the cake or photos or house, trip, career, or kids Life’s extras distract us from the center it all boils down to this You don’t choose a spouse at your wedding you choose them day to day You weed out the garden, you nurture it and sometimes you wait for the next season for blooms Because as love grows so do we
You find your soul mate, you get married, you stay together until you die, period.
~Jack Pearson, This is Us
