A long time ago, in a time that’s not ours,
lived a man untouched by minutes and hours;
a god who could drift through all time and space,
and ever so often he’d change out his face.
A Time Lord, he was – the last of his kind,
and he searched o’er the stars, hoping to find
something or someone – any person at all!
Just someone to hold him before his great fall.
For fell, he did, in the noblest of ways,
to save me and you and all of our days.
The Doctor – our saviour – that was his name;
a comfort to us, but to him a great shame.
A war to end wars and save all of time;
such was the crux of his greatest of crimes.
Murder and treason did not even begin
to describe the sheer weight of his ultimate sin.
Wounded and burdened, he fled for his life
in an ancient blue box (that some called his wife).
But broken and lonely he was deep inside,
because, he knew, he never could hide.
One day he’d pay for the sins of his past;
the unending journey would then end at last.
The end of The Doctor, who gave it his all,
was an end no one wanted; we all feared the fall.
We feared for our madman who wanted to live,
knowing that it was his life he must give.
That was the penance for what he had done;
his life for a history of violence unspun.
But he never did cower or back down and cry,
knowing full well it was his time to die.
He accepted his fate and gave us his hearts,
all while the universe ripped him apart.
But that’s what we needed; a lonely old friend
who would be with us all until the last end.
Or that’s what I’m told; that’s what history says
of a man with a bowtie and a really cool fez.
But I like to think that the Doctor survived,
that he’s watching us now, awake and alive.
For how could they catch as wily a fox
as the Raggedy Madman with his magic blue box?
No, no, my sweet, he is surely still there,
drifting through time and watching with care.
So remember, my darling, when you’re filled up with fear,
call on the Doctor; he will always be there.
No matter the time, or place – far or near –
the Doctor is watching; he will always be here.
