Title: Or Have You Forgotten?
By: QM
Summary: Tonks after the death of her parents… or Hermione after the war. Or Ginny. Or Molly. Or, and I like this idea quite a bit, though I only thought of it later, Cho after Cedric's death.
Shadowed
by the winter sun,
atop a hill, a tree stood, bare.
He knows
she's not the only one
picking apples, never there.
'A
better place', to stop- and stare,
to rest your soul and idly
run,
she was picking apples, never there
seeing light where
there was none.
The constant ebb of weary tides,
brings
forth a mess of fools gold,
but on the hill, a tree resides,
where
you can pick and not be told.
So now, leaveless, loveless,
worn-
He sits with her, lightly mending the torn.
As she looks
back and says, 'but now'.
He sits still and questions how.
And
when her restless mind awakes,
he hushes her, and for her sake
he
takes her to a lofty hill,
where dreams and sight and mind are
still,
so she can stop to rest and care,
to pick her apples,
never there.