When You Learn to Run

I could’ve never imagined

Such affection

One to give my life for

In a blink of an eye

Oh but how time is changing

our perspective

I never dreamed my life this way

And now my heart will skip a beat

When you learn to run

Will you still remember my face

Or the lullabies I used to whisper in your ear

Are your feet strong enough to carry you?

I could never had wished for

a better inspiration

You strip me from my selfishness

piece by piece

And how every word that you speak,

every smile that you keep granting me

can really make a day

A recognition you can’t turn away from

When you learn to run

Will you still remember my face

Or the lullabies I used to whisper in your ear

Are your feet strong enough to carry you?

And when time passes on

And the world has led you away from me

Will you still know the arms that’ll lift you when you fall

Are you wise enough to learn from my mistakes?

And suddenly I see

The blank canvas that we paint with gentle strokes

Was never ours to keep

We give you all we have

So you can paint a picture of your own

And make it stand against the breezing winds of time

Yours is the image I carve in my skin