B6 and 070 - Panopticon

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: March 3019 TA: 16th Shagrat en route to Barad-dûr; Poetic forms: tanka; Write what you know: what scares you
Format: Tanka
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Shagrat
Summary: Life beneath an all-seeing Eye

Panopticon

Ailing and stumbling
Through the dark sad waste land
  The perfect slave
Made to serve and serving
  Darkness inescapable

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm with Gandalf on this one: "As for me, I pity even his slaves." Although I might swap the "even" for a "particularly". I doubt Shagrat would want pity from either of us, though.