Just for you

If Shakespeare were here  
you would be his tragedy  
 
Mozart and Beethoven  
you would be their symphony  
 
Galileo would gaze into the stars  
and give a planet your name  
 
Christopher Columbus  
would sail the ocean blue  
 
and Neil Armstrong  
would fly you to the moon  
 
while Hemingway writes  
a bestseller about you  
 
The Great Houdini  
would chain himself up  
and face certain death  
for you  
 
Babe Ruth would hit home runs  
and Evil Knievel would  
jump the  
Grand Canyon  
 
Alexander the Great  
would conquer empires  
for your love  
 
and Michelangelo would make you  
his masterpiece,  
while  
Vincent Van Gogh  
would cut his ear off...  
just for you.  
 
But alas my dear  
they are gone,  
while I am here  
and all i can do  
is write this poem...  
just for you.