Title: Midnight
Author: Trialia
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Genre(s): Challenge, Poetry, Spiritual
Rating: K
Character(s): Elizabeth Weir
Pairing(s): Atlantis/Elizabeth
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: Keeping her own night watch.

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The moonlight falls softly on her face
as she watches the city at night.
No sound made, barely a breath,
but they flourish, growing slowly beneath her sight.

Death ever-present makes its mark,
on woman and refuge both,
and of the people they have lost, in dangers unknown,
she's reminded, city still silent as a ghost.

In its name, and striving to protect it,
she would die to defend the walls,
but the need to help her people gives her pause.

Smiles carried quiet in the wind,
from friends-- often shown--
aid her, but at world's end, the lady herself
must carry the city alone.

fin