Love Unclaimed

In a quiet Irish meadow Where the wildflowers bloom I walk alone at twilight Neath the pale and silver moon The whisper of the evening breeze It carries soft and low A tale of hearts long broken Where love dared not to go Oh, love, why do you haunt me? Why leave me in despair? With a heart so full of longing And a soul beyond repair For in the mirror's sorrow I see a lonely man Unworthy of your tender light Too lost to understand I've wandered through the heather With a burden on my chest Dreams of love now scattered Like a bird's forsaken nest The echoes of your laughter Haunt the valleys of my mind A melody so bittersweet To joy forever blind Oh, love, why do you haunt me? Why leave me in despair? With a heart so full of longing And a soul beyond repair For in the mirror's sorrow I see a lonely man Unworthy of your tender light Too lost to understand The sea's eternal whisper It calls me to the shore A promise of forgetting To feel this pain no more Yet in my heart a longing For a love I'll never claim A fire that burns eternal A never-ending flame So here I stand in silence Where the river meets the sky A solitary figure With a tear in every sigh The stars above bear witness To a love that couldn't be A man too full of shadows To ever set love free Oh, love, why do you haunt me? Why leave me in despair? With a heart so full of longing And a soul beyond repair For in the mirror's sorrow I see a lonely man Unworthy of your tender light Too lost to understand In this quiet Irish meadow Where the wildflowers bloom I'll walk alone forever Neath the pale and silver moon A ghost of love's lost promise In the twilight's gentle hand Unworthy of your tender touch Too lost to understand