Far from the Home I Love

How can I hope to make you understand
 What I do, why I do
 Why I must I travel to a distant land
 Far from the home I love.
 Once I was happily content to be
 As I was, where I was
 Close to the people who are close to me
 Here in the home I love.
 Who could see that a man would come
 Who would change the shape of my dreams?
 Helpless now I stand with him,
 Watching older dreams grow dim.
 Oh what a melancholy choice this is,
 Wanting home, wanting him.
 Closing my heart to every hope but his,
 Leaving the home I love.
 There where my heart has settled long ago
 I must go, I must go.
 Who could imagine I'd be wandering so
 Far from the home I love?
 Yet
 There with my love, I'm home.