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aesc ([personal profile] aesc) wrote2004-08-24 09:52 pm

[drabble] The End of a Letter to His King [A/B] G

For the [livejournal.com profile] lotr100 "Letter" challenge.

Title: The End of a Letter to His King
By: HF
Pairing: A/B
Adult Content: Not really. Minorly slashy.
Disclaimer: Alas, not mine.
Other stuff: Movieverse

Notes: The first new thing I've written in a long time. I was looking through some old notes, and ran across a poem I'd copied, "The End of a Letter to Ausonius," by Paulinus of Nola, which was the inspiration for this.


THE END OF A LETTER TO HIS KING

The hope of you was in my breath, my King.

What the mind could not accept, the heart knew. In Dwimordene’s mists I saw my duty. In the blood of Parth Galen I saw what was true and real. I remember the first time beneath the trees, when I bid you ride home with me. I remember the second when I died.

Both times I swore, “So long as I live, I will serve you.”

Though the world’s encircling separates us, my noble lord, I still serve you, and I will remember you beyond the doom that waits, forever.

Farewell.

-end-
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[personal profile] cruisedirector 2004-08-25 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yu-Gi-Oh was vastly better than the Pokemon movies. Which is not saying much, but, you know, I did sit through two of those!

I was so tempted to touch him in the boat but really afraid it would set off alarms...

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2004-08-25 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I was so tempted to touch him in the boat but really afraid it would set off alarms...

Yeah, or else get tackled by scary guard-type people.

Y'know, the closest thing I to which I could compare that experience, in terms of the freakish uncanniness of it all, was when I was at my grandmother's funeral. It was open-casket, and I remember very clearly how strange it was that I saw her so still, asleep, and being convinced (for a few seconds only, but still convinced) that she was going to move.
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[personal profile] cruisedirector 2004-08-25 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
*shivers* I've never been anywhere near the casket at an open casket funeral. Jews don't do open caskets and the one Catholic funeral I went to, I was as far away from the casket as possible. My grandparents all died when I was in my late teens-early 20s and I never saw them once they were gone.