A/N- this is Arwen's mind as she watches Aragorn die. Or at least, as I perceive it.





Arwen's Agony



Souls dance in the air

Blue lights, angelic tones

Fleeing the broken world

Music wraps around them

Fills the earth with echoes

The future claws at me

Rips and tears me

Pulls me along in the rapids of Time

The river flowing ever onward

No rescue to be found

Changes everywhere I look

No escape, just dark heartache

Longing for the past

See the ocean, the heaving waves

It calls, it burns, it commands me

And I cannot obey

The molten touch of day's last light

The cold of newborn moonlight

Each tells me that my time is gone

My life is passing quickly

I wonder, then, should I have chosen

To pass beyond the world

Like a mortal would

Oh, love, release me

Though I know 'tis a selfish request

I watch the life leave you, and I am only thinking

That I have promised to follow you there

To never see the Undying Lands

But pass on, with you

So this is Death

And I have forfeit my life

You will not stay, but choose to pass away

Beyond my touch

And it is my fate,

To follow, to die, to join the ranks of Men

Oh Luthien, you never said how hard it would be

To never cross the sea...