Doriath Week Day 7 - Celeborn
I donāt rly remember this, but in my planner I circled todayās date and made a note of it being Celebornās day in @doriathweek. I woke up this morning lowkey depressed with a verse in my head that wouldnāt leave me alone until I wrote it down, and when I wrote one verse, the others followed. So, hereās my submission, I guess?Ā
Celeborn ( Memory, Future, Middle Earth)
In Middle Earth vast and weary,
And looks at the darkened sky.
The stars are still shining
Though their light is slow and dim
He knows that oh so little
Is left in Endor for him.
The wind comes and it goes,
It howls in forgotten tongues;
He doesnāt feel it at allĀ
For his heart has gone numb.
A great duty still awaits him,
The old, silver-haired Lord.
He thinks on how longās it been
Since he last held his sword.
The threats are all vanquished,
This in his heart he knows,
Yet he will not leave his home
āTill his kin, too, goes.
His eyes are wise and reach far,
Farther away than they should,
They examine the past forgotten
Through fire, and stone, and wood.
All the wars that were long fought,Ā
All the devastating battles lost,
They all come back to haunt him
From shadows they rise and accost.
How is it, he asks the stars,
That I still feel unrest?
Why is it, he asks the wind,
That all my loveās gone to the West?
In LĆ³rien he now stands,
Once shining and happy and bright;
He thinks,Ā Even the trees
Have lost their beauty and might.
What says that of me, he asks
The woods around him aloud,
That the thought of winning and peace
Still doesnāt make me proud?
Aware he is that heās standing
On another crossroad in life.
The two paths that are diverging
Are causing him too great a strife.
To stay and to fade is one,
The other to go and to live.
Both these paths demand sacrifice
Such that heāll never forgive.
Could love be enough, he asks,
In this abundance of loss?
When the sea at last I cross?
The once-golden leaves around him whisper
As their colors bleak and fade -
Gold cannot be without silver,
And he knows his decision is made.
His eyes are shining and wet with tears
For the past that he does mourn,
But also for painful, uncertain future
That awaits great Lord Celeborn.
Let me know what you think! :)Ā
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