My turn

WHEN IT WAS FINALLY MY TURN

Verse 1
I learned how to wear a smile
Like a coat against the cold,
Learned how to tell myself
Some stories don’t get told.
The world had left its scars on me,
It taught me how to hide,
So I built a life for my little girls
And locked my dreams inside.

I held their hands through every storm,
Watched them chase the light,
Read the stories, kissed the bruises,
Stayed awake through sleepless nights.
I gave them every piece of me,
Every hope, every prayer,
While somewhere in the quiet
Another life was waiting there.

Pre-Chorus
And every year that passed me by
I’d ask the stars above,
“Will there ever come a moment
When I can choose my love?”

Chorus
So I waited…
Through the seasons, through the years,
Through the birthdays and the laughter,
Through the joy and through the tears.
I carried all my wishes
Like a flame inside the dark,
Holding onto hope
With trembling hands and a guarded heart.

And every night I’d whisper
To the moonlight shining through,
“When my daughters no longer need me,
Will I finally become me too?”

Verse 2
Time kept turning pages,
The little girls grew tall,
The house grew quiet slowly
As they answered their own calls.
And still I wondered secretly
If my chance had passed me by,
If some dreams were only meant to live
And never come alive.

But hope has a way of breathing
Even when it feels undone,
Like the first faint line of morning
Before the rising sun.

Pre-Chorus
Then one ordinary moment
Changed everything I knew,
Because the life I’d waited for
Walked into the room.

Chorus
And there she was…
Like a song I’d always known,
Like finding a missing piece
I thought was forever gone.
She saw beyond the version
Of myself I’d learned to be,
And somehow she reminded me
Of the woman inside me.

For the first time in forever
I could finally let my guard fall through,
Because she loved the parts of me
I never thought anyone knew.

Bridge
I was a mother.
I was a shelter.
I was the shoulders carrying everyone else.
But beneath all the giving,
Beneath all the waiting,
There was still a heart asking for itself.

And maybe love can wait,
But it never truly dies,
Sometimes it survives quietly
Until the timing is right.

Final Chorus
Now my daughters stand beside me
With their own dreams to pursue,
And they smile and say,
“Mom, it’s your turn too.”

So I opened up the door
I kept closed for all those years,
Stepped out from the shadows
And laid down all my fears.

Because love was never selfish,
And truth was never wrong,
I was writing their beginning
While waiting for my song.

And after all the waiting,
After all the years gone by,
I finally chose my happiness,
I finally chose my life.

And there beside the woman
My heart had always known,
For the very first time…

I was home.

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