Only Time Knows

Only time knows when love begins,
why it finds you unprepared,
how a stranger becomes the place you lean,
how your guard lowers without permission,
how your heart starts speaking before you do,

Only time knows when love grows,
why days start revolving around one person,
how effort feels easy at first,
how plans sound like promises,
how hope learns your name,
how you start to believe it will last,

Only time knows when love stays strong,
why you choose it even when it is hard,
how you keep showing up tired,
how you forgive small wounds,
how you fight quietly for us,
how you think this is forever,

Only time knows when love begins to falter,
why replies slow down,
how closeness turns into distance,
how you start loving alone,
how fear becomes routine,

Only time knows when love fails to hold,
why one heart keeps grabbing,
how the other lets go,
how breaking happens in pieces,

Only time knows when love ends,
why it stops without warning,
how you are still reaching,
how love is already gone,

Only time knows if love will come again,
when it might find permanent roots,
why it would stay this time,
how a tired heart would trust it,
or be done waiting,

Only Time Knows,
Only Time Knows.