This time you have pushed me too far!

Why have you burned the final bridge?

Did you think I'd come running to you,

My dazzling knight in shining armor?

Think again!

Might is right? If that be your battle cry,

May I be damned to a life of mediocrity

Better to stand alone beside Lady Justice

Than to fall to depths hitherto unknown

Don't you see? They took your sorrow,

Your pain and weaponized it against us.

How could a star that shone so brightly

Be lured so quickly toward the darkness?

It is not I who must break free. It is you!

Trapped, lost, and alone no matter

How many skirts traipse after you

Admiring your flimsy house of cards.

Break free, my love. Break free before

They force you to commit a crime

From which redemption cannot come.

This is not you! I remember a kind man,

A man of honor who loved and believed.

He lies there still beneath the ashy ruins,

Draped in a cloak of darkness and doubt.

All you must do is cast the cloak aside.

Forgive me for breaking your heart,

But you have fallen too far from me.

Ironically I'm living the life you wanted

To create together, if only you'd let go.

Now we shall live separately in sadness.

My time for raising children has passed

That ship has long departed without me,

But believe me, humanity will continue.

When you gave up your belief in God,

This I did not foresee. I longed for you

To break free, not to adopt an even more

Elaborate prison for your beautiful mind.

Why did you let the vile viper's venom

Seep into your veins and spread poison

To convert thoughts, once as radiant as

The passion burning in your pure heart?

Come back to me, Richard Marino!

Come back before it's too late!