with care and respect july 19 im gratefully humble for living today although you are so gone from my life in any way i took you for granted perhaps years ago but appreciate you now more than youll ever know i didnt understand then the gift that was you but now all these years later i finally do with care and respect i will always love you a lifetime of struggle you come and you go you were always inside me i just want you to know and when she tells you its over that shes not yours to protect dissect and disassemble with care and respect i hadnt written a poem , or a lyric as i call them , in years .