His heart stopped
He didn’t breath
He stood there breathless;
among the leaves.

Sweet sounds of dreamers
is what he heard;
like voices of star maidens
like a mournful song bird.

He took a step
She turned around
Her eyes shone like saphires in the moonlight
She moved her eyes from him and stared at the ground.

He approached her slowly
She felt him hesitate
He touched her neck with a strong, warm hand
At that moment she knew it must be fate

He asked her “What is your name?”
She didn’t know what to do
“My name. I am Luthien Tinuviel.
Who are you?”

“I am Beren
and that is how I shall feel
if you are never mine.”
She didn’t move. Her heart ache is all she could feel.

Suddenly she smiled.
“Dance with me!” she cried.
“Rejoice! For you have found me. My love.”
“My darling I can’t stay. Oh how I wish I could.” He sighed.

Her heart was broken.
Her love she felt she had lost.
“I have to leave.” He said.
“Your love.” she said. “What is the cost?”

“There is no cost. You have already taken it.
But I musn’t stay. I am forbidden to love.
Let us run away!
Make haste! Let’s leave, my love.”

Tinuviel was elven and Beren human.
She couldn’t leave her home for her heart would break.
“I can’t! I can’t!” she cried.
“My home! My family. If I left my heart shall truley break.”

“Oh please just go!
Say goodbye before I could never let you go.”
Beren’s heart sank.
“Goodbye, my love! I shall never for get thee. And with this I shall go.”

With this he kissed her and turned away.
He knew he could never stay.
Tinuviel under her breath whispered “Oh please. You can’t go.”
But he didn’t hear. He strode away.

The next morning she awoke with heart ache on her mind.
She ran and ran to find her love, Beren.
She stopped with a weak scream in her ears.
She ran towards it, she didn’t quit. She had heard Beren.

Among the fallen leaves he lay.
She heard his voice “My love it’s you.”
She turned her head and saw him, an arrow in his heart.
“My love! My love!” she cried “Who has done this to you?”

“An orc had come. It shot an arrow at me.
Oh, love it’s you! I’m going to die. I’m leaving fast.
Oh please don’t leave!
Stay with me for as long as I can last.”

She found herself weeping and dying too.
Of a broken heart of the death of her love Beren.
“Oh darling, I’m leaving too!
My broken heart is killing me. My love, My love, My Beren.”

She looked at the arrow in his heart.She felt as if one had pierced hers.
“Oh, love, we are both almost gone! I love you! My darling! My Beren.”
“I love you.” He spoke and those were his dying words.
She wept and wept. Her heart was broken and with that she died with her Beren.

Her love was gone and so was she. It didn’t matter much now.
But she loved Beren and he loved her. They didn’t get much time together except a night of sleepless thoughts.
There she went with her love. There they went together Beren and Tinuviel.

The
End by Alexandra Noble