Devastation and Loss
By Hermione Granger
So
At last
It has come to this.
The war.
Against Voldemort.
When I walk by
Those long wooden tables
I used to eat at
And see
Bodies.
Death
Sadness
Crowding them.
My friends.
Gone.
Lavender Brown
Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin
Remus Lupin
Colin Creevey
Fred Weasley
My friends.
My family
Dead
I feel
Like I should be there
Next to them
With them
In an eternal sleep.
But
Alas
Twas not my destiny.
To die with them
It is when I feel this
That I think of
Professor Dumbledore
And how
He sacrificed himself
For us
And I say
To myself
"It is time for me to live,"