The Doctor's Sacrifice

So you turned to him and kissed
this perfect copy of myself.
I stood there, weeping in my soul
and yet rejoicing for your bliss.

I pray you did not hear the mighty cry
that filled me to the core,
that, with a thousand voices, told you: "Rose,
no man loves you more than I!"

O, how I wish I could have spoken true -
how much I need you by my side.
'The lonely angel' someone once me called,
and yet, the angel is not me, it's you.

In all my life, I never truly lived
until the day that I met you.
You took these hardened hearts of mine
and taught them how to laugh, to love, forgive.

Of all these thoughts I could not speak a word,
it would have made you choose not him - but me.
Though all the stars will sing my love
my mortal ears, it never shall be heard.

You always knew there can be no "Forever"
for us, timelord and an earthen child.
We both know you belong with him
not bound be my life's endless tether.

You have so much to do, to see
that I can never give.
I want for you the best of lives,
the best that ever there can be.

So love this man, in battle born,
in him you will remember me.
The joy is thine - the loss
forever mine to mourn.