Not a Great Man

By Victor J. Lams

Twelve years of waiting is more than I can stand,

I want a resolution, a change, I demand

A progression, there to be something more at hand

Than a lack of direction, a sinking in the sand. I’m

Tired of misdirection by those who are banned

From ever undoing what it is I have planned.

There’s no possibility they could understand.

So without hesitation I issue my command.

But I never said that I was a great man,

I’m just a man who’d like to make some plans,

And you’re standing in the way of this average man,

Who’d like to move on as soon as he can.

But you keep holding back this impatient man.

I know I deserved a lot better than

What I got as a man, who is just a man,

Who never ever said that he was a great man.

Your parents were here and they were denying,

The courts and the law and your wishes defying,

They don’t like my plan that has you dying so

They told some people that your endless crying,

Was really your own special way of trying

To wake up from the death that I am supplying,

I didn’t like the things that they were implying, so

On national TV I said that they were lying.

I never ever said that I was a great man,

I’m just a simple man who loves his wife,

And just like any other loving, caring man

I swore I’d stay with her for the rest of her life

So before you accuse this average man,

You should know that it cuts at my heart like a knife

The heart of a man, who is just a man,

Who never ever said that he was a great man.

I promised to love you faithfully --

Before you became such a burden to me.

I’m so lucky to have two women in my life,
She is my girlfriend and you are my wife.

Tell them I’m engaged in a battle for your soul,

But we both know it’s about control.

By now there’s one thing that you’re sure to understand,

I never ever said that I was a great man.

The last thing I need as I bid you farewell,

Are your parents to go and try and make my life Hell.

It’s as peaceful and as quiet as a newborn’s breath,

There’s no better way to go than by starving to death.

It’s nobody’s business to ask me why,

After I’ve decided it’s your right to die.

By now there’s one thing that you’re sure to understand,

I never ever said that I was a great man.