Where My Heart Poem by Edith Niemeyer

Where My Heart Has Always Been
[Verse 1]
There are words I never needed,
You could read them in my eyes.
In the quiet between our heartbeats,
There was nothing left to hide.
Through the years that changed around us,
Through the roads we couldn't see,
Somehow every turn kept leading
Your heart back home to me.
[Pre-Chorus]
No grand promise could explain it,
No perfect words could ever do.
I only know when life was changing,
The constant there was you.
[Chorus]
If I had every road before me,
I would still walk yours again.
Through the beginning, through the breaking,
Through every might-have-been.
I would cross the years between us,
Give tomorrow all I am.
For honestly, when all is said—
You're where my heart has always been.
[Verse 2]
We have watched the seasons wander,
Seen the young years disappear.
Held each other through the distance,
Through the laughter, through the tears.
Love was never just one moment,
Never only something said.
It was choosing one another
Through the life that lay ahead.
[Pre-Chorus]
And if the moon forgets its shining,
If the mountains leave the blue,
There would still be something certain—
I would find my way to you.
[Chorus]
If I had every road before me,
I would still walk yours again.
Through the beginning, through the breaking,
Through every might-have-been.
I would cross the years between us,
Give tomorrow all I am.
For honestly, when all is said—
You're where my heart has always been.
[Bridge]
Not because the road was perfect.
Not because we never fell.
But because beneath the silence
We have always known it well.
What I couldn't say, you carried.
What you couldn't hold, I knew.
And somewhere between then and forever,
There was always me and you.
[Final Chorus]
So if I had forever waiting,
And eternity began,
I'd reach across whatever separates us
Just to find your hand.
Let the stars keep turning over,
Let time go where it will—
I will love you through the changing,
I will choose you still.
And when the distant future
Finally becomes the now,
No explanation will be needed—
We'll already know somehow.
[Outro]
Honestly…
Through everything…
You are where
my heart
has always been.