THERE YOU ARE

There are people you love And there are people you need The ones who know the difference Between my silence and my peace You’ve seen me come undone Never asked me to pretend Just made a little room beside you Till I found myself again And I don’t always say it Maybe I thought you knew How much of me is standing here Because I had all of you There you are And I breathe again Like my heart remembers where it’s been The whole world can be heavy I can carry more than I should But something in me settles The minute I’m with you You are home without a house You are peace I can’t explain Some people come into your life And make you whole again There you are And I breathe again We have lived a thousand stories Some we laugh about today Some still hurt if you touch them Some we carried anyway And you never had to save me You just never disappeared Through the losing and the breaking You were always somewhere near Maybe sisters are the people God gives pieces of your soul So when life scatters you to pieces Someone still remembers you whole There you are And I breathe again Like my heart remembers where it’s been The whole world can be heavy I can carry more than I should But something in me settles The minute I’m with you You are home without a house You are peace I can’t explain Some people come into your life And make you whole again There you are And I breathe again If someday miles grow longer If our hair turns silver-white If we’re sitting telling stories About the way we lived this life I hope you know I meant it Every word I couldn’t say You were never just my sisters You were how I found my way And if I had another lifetime I would look for you again Across every road and lifetime I would know you just the same By the laughter By the peace By the way my whole heart knows There you are There you are There you are And I’m home There you are And I breathe again Every broken part grows quiet then I have walked through fire I have learned how strong I am But strength was never doing All of this without your hands You are home without a house You are peace after the rain And whatever life may take from me It cannot take the love we made My sisters My safe place My always There you are And I breathe again There you are There I am Somewhere between the two I found home