Stolen - Dougie MacLean

It’s been stolen from me

Taken never to return

Rendered blind I cannot see

Back along the shining way we’ve come

No more the stinging tears will fall

Fall to wash the spirit clean

Almost empty almost all

Blind refused to see what might have been

How can the lover’s heart proclaim

Once the poetry has gone?

These naked words are not the same

Stranded in some place we don’t belong

No more the ancient tales to tell

Words to lead our children on

Left unopened where they fell

All our timeless wisdom now has gone

And so the children bear the loss

Of what’s been gained and what’s been lost