Burial

[written_leaves]

We should not be here, Pip.

Merry's heart-wrenching inquiry to Pippin when he finds him in the war-torn streets, they were both so terribly beyond anything they were intended for. This originally was carefully formatted, I've had to make do with dashes here on LJ and hope they aren't too distracting.

Burial

Are you going to bury me?

Where have they gone...
_ _ _ They have all gone, Pippin,
Leaving us, they're leaving us
One by one,
_ _ _ Dropping away
_ _ _ _ _Dropping away into darkness.

The Men, the Big ones have
_ _ _ Left us - abandoned us.
Leaving this world,
_ _ _Leaving our sides
_ _ _ _ _Of what consequence are we?

We should not be here, Pip.
They have no use for us;
_ _ _ Too
_ _ _ _ _small,
_ _ _ _ _ _ Too
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ slow,
Try as we might how can we hope
To reach their heights, or to live there?

We shouldn't have left our homes,
Pippin; Wouldn't have
_ _ _ Except for love.

And now, where is the one that we loved?

He's gone away...
_ _ _ Dropped away from our sides,
_ _ _ _ Just like them.
All in a moment lost from us forever.

There was a terror before my eyes,
An ancient terror.
_ _ _ It took my leige,
_ _ _ _ _ _It took my lady...
What of her? What has become of her,
_ _ _ _ __ _ __of us?

This shadow is so heavy, Pip.
It begins to overcome my waking mind as well as my sleep.
I am...
_ _ _ falling away...

I am so sorry, Pip.
So sorry that I am falling away from you.
You, of all of us,
_ _ _ Should not have to be
_ _ _ _ __ _ __Alone.

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