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This is for my beautiful ladybird Dinah Laurel Lance.
I already knew by that very first glance
That you saw me as more Oliver Queen
Than the Green Arrow who is on the scene
Of a crime to do the superhero dance
With the Black Canary as both a fellow member
Of the Justice League Of America and my partner
Stopping crime dead in its tracks on the streets
Of Star City where there still is plenty of heat
To go around no thanks to one gang banger
After another even in this day and age.
But that was before I had looked with pure rage
At how the other members of the League were able
To handle any threat those bad guys had put on the table
So far and made me take a page
Out of the book of those who were with Superman
During the founding of the JLA including Wonder Woman
And quit the League because it had became way
Too powerful and I just can not let myself stay
In a group where a guy with no powers is a deadman
If any one of those guys including the new kid Firestorm
Goes mustang and trashes the others like a college dorm
Room would get trashed by some kids throwing a party and
Doing stuff that everyone else would not consider grand.
But this part of the message really is true to form.
No matter what happens between us,
I still have a space in my heart for you and that is a plus
In my personal book because I just can not stop
Myself from loving you anymore than I could possibly top
The JLA by calling myself 'The Amazing Gus'
After gaining some powers of my own somehow.
Yes, I began to realize that by having a cow
Over every little thing is not the way
To solve the problems we sometimes have on a day
To day basis no matter how
Many times you try to fix them in your own way.
What I still am trying to say to on this one day
Is that I still love you and will keep on loving
You until we would each be seeing
Ourselves get old, retire and just fade away.