Fly Like An Eagle by Flora-lass

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Fly Like An Eagle

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I hear you. 

You, yet not you - so tormented and broken that I can hardly bear it.

But it can only be you. 

After all these long ages, 

With the lies and the oath and the burning between us,

I know you still.

 

So I climb these hateful heights

As we sing together in our souls

Though our voices are spent and my harp long since discarded.

And as I see you, and the source of your anguish,

My eyes overflow and I can go no further

For there is nowhere to go, unless I grow wings.

 

How have we come to this?

That you should beg me to slay you

When I would not harm one hair of your radiant head

And only long to soothe your pain.

But I must shoot away the pain instead.

 

'O King to whom all birds are dear, 

speed now this feathered shaft!'

I cry out, as my heart breaks…

But my hand is stayed, and I am borne up to you!

As yet I know not how.

 

Forgive me that I do not heed your pleas

As I forgive your deeds (or what you did not do).

You will live, if it kills me.

Morgoth's device has defeated me

But he will not defeat us.

I dash away the blinding tears, and pray to hurt you cleanly

If such a thing can be.

 

You fall into my arms, and we fly away.

Your blood spills over me

And its stain will never fade, not while your pain remains.

But I have you safe.

Your flame still burns, and so the ice may melt. 

And time will heal.

 

(HelenFloraW)