I have no words for you
that could lessen the pain I bring.
That long ago I took a vow
which now is an empty ring.

For many years
I've done my part
to be the one I should
for all the world to see.

I stood tall and arrogant
at all I have accomplished.
When in my heart I always new
that you were the one behind it.

And now I am a broken man
by deed and thought undone.
I walked away from one I should
and took the one I shouldn't.

And now my folly has turned full circle
and in the wrong I sit.
For once upon this path you walk
there are no ways to leave it.

I would ask forgiveness if I could
but my heart betrays my purpose.
I have lost a part of me in this
that I can not recover.

She stole my heart, or was it given
I can not rightly tell,
but which ever the way,
without it I can't be forgiven.

To ask for forgiveness would require
and oath I can not give.
For in the emptiness that was my heart I know
that if she calls I must go, though the call may never be given.

And so through days of untold pain
I put you through not knowing.
If today is the day that all must end
or if the next be sunny.

I know that in the depths of hell
I'll pay for this misdeed
and every day on this green earth
I forge the chain that in my death I'll wear.

And if its weight were triple
it could not ever compare
with the wrong that I have done you,
the one who was so fair.

I am so sorry.