O72 - The Forgotten People

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: March 3019: March 8th, The Dead receive their summons
Format: Drabble
Genre: General
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: OCs
Pairings: N/A
Summary: The Dead are called and come at the command.

The Forgotten People

Do the Dead hear?
Only the whisper of voices on the wind, and the rattle of bones.
But they listen for the horn in the hills.

Do the Dead see?
Only the eyes of each other, hollow and hopeless.
But they search for the figure at the Door.

Do the Dead feel?
Only the weight of years, the chain of their broken oath.
But they remember time before this time, the world of life and light.

Do the Dead know?
Only that they are forgotten.
They know they are forgotten.

Till the Dead are called
And come at the command.

Comments

[huinare.livejournal.com]

This is quite evocative of their aloneness, as well as a sense of hope for deliverance.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes. The Dead are so tragic, and yet you made them seem almost wistfully sad here. Beautiful.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I don't write much poetry so it's good to know it works.

[hhimring]

Not entirely forgotten... And so they can be called and released.
This works extremely well. Do you really not write much poetry?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Hardly any poetry, although I drabble a lot. And read a lot of TS Eliot.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Chilling! And your reading TS Eliot shows, this reminded me of The Hollow Men more than a little. Fantastic work!

ETA'd because I can't spell, sometimes.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I have fallen far behind on replies to comments! Thank you, very much! I'm glad the echoes of The Hollow Men came through.