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MOON LETTERS : POETRY
My Lake - by Benjamin F. Ossoff

When I first was sent away,
And first I entered my cave,
The lake in which my island sits
Wasn’t so big,
No, it wasn’t so deep.

But long slow time passed by,
And I thought of my brother.
Gollum says it’s his fault
He tried to take the precious.
But when I think of what I did to him,
I can only cry.

I cried for year after long sad year
When the days were nonexistent
In the dark of my cave, I wept
And with the pain of my deed I kept
On crying.

And every day,
As I remembered what I did,
I cried some more
And the lake got higher.

When I think of Deagol and our friendship,
Higher swells the lake,
For our friendship now is gone.

When I think of my parents, who loved me not,
Higher swells the lake,
For they turned me out forever.

I think of all the outside world and how the trickst us, hurt us,
And higher swells the lake,
For all the world does hate me.

And thus I made my lake,
In the cold dark cavern,
Thus I passed half a millennia…
Crying and riddling and fawning
Over the precious that destroyed my life,
And higher swelled the lake.



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