yet the ages have changed and the only time
I hear your sparkling voice is in the rare moments I sleep.
(the temptation not to open my eyes again
grows ever stronger, yet I cannot afford it yet.)
these lands have never felt so empty nor vast,
spreading more and more with every day without you.
no, I don't feel immortal, simply endless.
I can't make myself think of our youth
for the fear that even thinking will soil the purity
we all wore as second clothing.
my biggest sin, I now see,
is loving our mortal kin too much.
not sin, perhaps, but I can't bear to call it otherwise
when nothing more stands between us, my lady.
I miss the years we spent simply watching the leaves,
changing colours as the seasons fell,
beautiful and constant in their flow,
like the waters of Imladris, never the same
without the gentle caress of your lyre
(the sound that long ago turned into ashes,
leaving nothing but abyss in its wake)
my shoulders are more brittle every day,
yet I must endure. darkness threatening
to swallow us whole should we weaken.
but soon I will come to you again, my lady,
to spend the eternity in your hands.
may the years be gentle to us then once again,
and allow us so fall into oblivion of men together.