And so I've said too much and not enough And so the play is finally at an end You never had the care to call my bluff, and so I must be pleased to be your friend But what then was the purpose of this game? I never really had a chance to win It's true, I rather like who I became But what am I to do with who I've been? For I may wish to meet myself someday among the ashes of a fire long dead To see my shadow there and hear it say that it was happy with the life it led What emptiness awaits me? This I fear Far more than any peril I might face My purpose in this world became less clear When you were taken from your cherished place Within my wishing heart and went your way So willingly it almost makes me ill To think it never crossed your mind to stay Pushes the dagger deep, completes the kill And yet how much of this was done by me? Had I the courage would you still have flown? How sad to think this was not destiny But my mistake, yet how could I have known? Now here is my dilemma, as it seems Do I accept the score that fate has set, And calmly watch the passing of my dreams Or do I dare to place another bet That where the curtain falls another rises If I am wrong then strike me for my sins But I believe our acts and thin disguises Where but a prologue to what now begins