One Last Step by Eowyn_HorseJoy
One last step
Leave them behind
Reach the boats and row away
One last step
You’re on your own
One last step
You’re on your way
One last step
The marshes pass
Leave the fearsome swamp behind
One last step
And Mordor’s closer
One last step
The gates you find
One last step
You clear the stairs
Standing now at tunnel’s door
One last step
Into the dark
One last step
Into the gore
One last step
Across the waste
Towards mountain looming, never near
One last step
Closer to doom
One last step
Closer to fear
One last step
Before you fall
Until at last your body breaks
One last step
And you colapse
One last step
You cannot take
One last step
Another takes
Borne on his back, you reach the top
One last step
You see a door
One last step
You cannot stop
One last step
Into the fire
Now do your deed and save your kind
One last step
To do your duty
One last step
“The Ring is mine!”
One last step
To reach the harbor
A ship to heal your soul and heart
One last step
You say goodbye
One last step
And you depart
5 Comments
beautiful……. just beautiful! please write more soon, that was awesome! terrific emotion and word use. the simple sentences really got their point across to me. keep writing pleeeeeaaaase!!!
I loved your poem. Everything in it is pleasing to the ear. Good work!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very beautiful. Reminds me of my own poem ‘Every Step’, except my poem wasn’t as poetic. Read it if you get the chance!
I love this! You show the stepping stones of a journey with your rhythmic chanting, and it is both compelling and true. One can at last understand and feel the traveler’s wandering progress in gaining speed, confidence, and peace of mind. I thought it was a very interesting and good idea to jump from Mordor to the Grey Havens departure in your poem. For like Frodo said “it feels more like falling asleep again” when he came back home, so those are probably the most significant parts of his tale in his heart. So thank you so much for writing, you definitely got some aspiring talent, and please continue sculpting it!