So, you grew up, leaving me Peter Panning for gold amongst the grit of adulthood. Your guitar gathers dignified dust, while mine puffs and wheezes yet another senile song, an arthritic dog treading painfully in step with its selfish, thoughtless master.
I never envied you your brilliance because it was shared, it was ours but I've been toasting marshmallows on the embers far too long.
And now your real life, the one you've worked for, studied for, sweated for (and the one I've studiously ignored) is to carry you over the sea and away. I have no doubt it is still your brilliance that paves the trail, But it's for others, now and that is fine. I am reconciled, and full of hope for you and yours.