Daeron’s Musings

A, Lúthien!  My love betrayed!

What madness possessed me?

When you came to me trusting

And I gave your secrets away.

Forgive me,

As I had to tell Thingol!

Out of love, and out of fear.

Fear that you, my love, would leave

And your beauty depart forever.

So I told; I betrayed.

I can still see the hurt in your eyes

When you looked at me;

It was torment to bear.

But then you were locked up;

A nightingale in a cage

All because of me.

You then sang no more.

My heart was in two

To see you captured this way;

While I knew that I was to blame.

Yet you forgave me still.

And you called me your friend.

Yet somehow that was worse;

Love undeserved than hatred well-earned.

And then you left me forever.

After the man who captured your heart.

So I left those woods singing sorrowfully;

Unable to bear life without you.

O!  To do it over again!

I would not betray you,

But lend you my aid,

Although my heart would wrench in two.

Yet better that than this guilt!

A!  Lúthien!  Beauty now forever past!

I shall never again gaze into your eyes.

I will sing until I pass away

Of Lúthien my love betrayed.