A/N: Written for the A Quest to the Unknown Challenge, the Deathly Hallows path with word: gravel, quote: "Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes" – Panchatantra and object: camera. Also for the Freeverse Frenzie Competition, poem 24. The character here is Snape; no pairings this time.
To Death
He had been blind,
so blind
And now it was too late.
If only he had known…
But truly,
what would that knowledge
have done to him – the blind man
who could not see the raw jewel
buried in grains of sand…
It was too late to mourn.
Even a camera's quick shutter
wouldn't bring the moment back,
shattered as it was
Into gravel
that dug into his foolish feet
now set on the path
of death.