From the Songs of the Greenwood
THE MEMORY OF TREES 1
by Soledad
(a song born in the Second Age, after the great forests of Eriador had been destroyed by Sauron)
The names of those
with hearts of stone and steel;
the names of those
who murder the trees
the names of those
who debase the birds
may blacken beyond remembrance
upon the closed lips of Time.
The names of those
who silence the songs;
the names of those
who soil the ponds
the names of those
with hearts of stone and thorn
may blacken beyond remembrance
upon the forbidding lips of Time.
(Inspired by a rhymeless prose poem of the Hungarian poet Károly Bari. No direct connection in topic, though. My heartfelt thanks the Wild Iris for her suggestions; all remaining mistakes are the direct result of me not listening to her.)