Authors Note: This is my first REAL poem, so please be nice. =( Even though it sucks, methinks. Lol, it is for Sam when Frodo's gone away, and it was inspired by the song "Into The West" by Annie Lennox. =) PLEASE review!!

----Standing Still----

Light has come without being seen,
Here we dream of what has been.........
The stars have faded out of sight
They have melted away with night.

The ship that bore you forth is gone
To the light beyond the dawn,
The sea still sparkles blue,
Even now, without you

Somewhere, a moon does guide
Your distant, final ride.
Somewhere, a shore does wait
To fulfill your unknown fate.

The ones who stand here,
They can only weep and fear
The endless stretch of empty days;
To reach the lost there are no ways.

Late at night when moon will shine,
Shadows dance by oak and pine.
One shadow, flown out of time
T'will no more prose nor rhyme.

The sea breeze dry my drops,
Memory flowing backwards stops
And you are here in my heart............
Bringing us closer when far apart.

Swanlike vessel, still it glides
Over, under, past high tides,
Far ahead blue sky touches sand............
I am here, and you have reached The Land.

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