If Mandos Allowed…
I swore to protect you with my life
But now you've gone where I can't follow
To whom will you turn when you meet strife
And who will be there to guard your back?
Because you're gone… life fled from your eyes
And now you've gone where I can't follow.
I can hear the wails, the mourning cries
Your people grieve; do you not hear them?
I'd have died for you, O King of Men
My comrade through all: war, grief and pain…
You'd have done the same for me, my friend.
But if you could, would you save me from this?
Would you spare me the pain of this loss,
My comrade through all: life before death?
If you could, would you pause where roads cross
And over death, choose life immortal?
Of course you would, for we were brothers:
Comrades through all, except this last fate…
This curse, this doom, this death that sunders.
But if Mandos allowed, you'd come back…
Back from death, the fate of your people
To what you deserve: life immortal
Where you'd be young, not old and feeble,
Happy with your friends, eternally.
But instead, I've been left behind here
With what you deserve: life immortal
But you're gone forever, and I fear
I'll be alone; the last to remain.
But if you could, you'd return to me
From oblivion, death eternal
To Valinor, over the wide sea…
If Mandos allowed, you would come back…
Wouldn't you?
*Yeah, I'm not a poet and I know it. Normally I abhor writing poetry because I am so awul at it…
This is from Legolas' perspective after Aragorn's death. When he says that he'll soon be alone, I am not forgetting Gandalf, but it just didn't seem to me that Gandalf and Legolas are all that close. Sorry.
While you're here, read my other story The Fortunate. This is kinda related to that.
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