I have carried the love for you seemingly forever.

For forty years I have lived with you

in my heart, my very soul

and there has not been a single day

in all that time in which I have not thought of you.

I have stood by you, watched you fall from grace,

I have seen you tumble down and graze your pride,

I have seen you become the main villain

in your own deluded play and the performance

of a lifetime snatched from the jaws of defeat;