For many long years have I lived in this land,
under the trees and sun and stars.
For all my long ages it has protected me
from the shadow just afar.

But the shadow now grows and I have been called
to protect the land of my birth.
And I relize now, after all I’ve been through,
that a different evil surrounds Middle-Earth.

That evil is time, and what time can do,
and it saddens me to know,
that even after all I’ll do,
time will still not go.

I linger here, stuck in the past,
while others pass away.
Yet at the same time I’m so far ahead,
I’ve seen so much more than they.

The change they bring is worse than death,
I must suffer through it all.
The forests grow fewer, the cities grow larger,
their towers so very tall.

I’ve lost so many and loved so few,
and this is what draws near-
misery and grief will take me,
my tears will become paths to fear.

Will my land now protect me,
or will I have to sail away?
Away from the places I love,
never to come back another day?

I look to the stars for answers,
yet none has come to me.
I’ll still be waiting here, in my heart,
for when from this choice I’ll be free.

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