If You Can Exist, Then So Can I

What was the plan you had in mind?

Because if you can exist, then so can I.

I'll carve a path, and light my way,

Where love is threaded in every day.

What was the darkness you had in mind?

Because if light will persist, then so will I.

If life can breathe where shadows lie,

Then love can endure, and so will I.

If you can take, then so can I give,

If you can suffer, then so can I live.

If you can fall, then so can I rise,

If you can cage, then so can I fly.

If you can wound, then so can I heal,

If you can hurt, then so can I feel.

If you can silence, then so can I speak,

If you can hide, then so can I seek.

If you can betray, then so can I trust,

If you can wound, then so can I adjust.

If you can fight, then so can I win,

If you can begin, then so can I again.

If the world can have chaos walk its land,

Then love can exist, hand in hand.

In every storm that threatens to break,

Love is the anchor, the calm we make.

Shame on those who'd try to steal my soul,

For love is exalted, out of their control.

So what was my death you had in mind?

Because if you can breathe, then so can I.

What was the control you had in mind?

If you can walk freely, then so can I.

What was the darkness you tried to define?

If you can cast shadows, then my light can shine.

Love will exist, together as one,

Walking the earth beneath the sun.

No power can break it, no force can run,

For love is eternal, never undone.

If the broken version of you can exist, then so can I,

Shattered, yet rising, under the same sky.

Our wounds are proof, the reason we try,

If we can heal, then we'll learn to fly.

You will never make it right to dim my flame,

To quench my fire, to strip me of my name.

Shame on those who tried to break my soul,

For despite their shadows, I still stand whole.

If the broken version of me can exist,

Then I too can escape from a clenched fist.

If pieces of me can be scattered wide,

Then I can rebuild with love as my guide.

If her heart can be torn and still hold the light,

If she can endure the fiercest of fights,

If her soul can be battered, yet still shine so bright,

Then so can I, with love as my sight.

I’ll stand tall and strong, and here’s the reason why:

If their hate can exist, then so can I.

With love in my heart, a fire in my eye.

I will exist, for her, I will not deny.