Dreams Might Be Filled With Lies by amyfortuna

[elwinfortuna]

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: "Dreams might be filled with lies," Blind Guardian Lyrics, N42
Format: Poem
Genre: Drama, Poetry
Rating: T (some references to canon-typical violence)
Warnings: None
Characters: Rían, references to Huor, Húrin, Fingon, Tuor, and Eärendil.
Pairings: Rían/Huor
Summary: Rían reflects on the future she has seen in her dreams.

In my dreams my Huor sleeping lies
With blackened arrows in his eyes
Blackened arrows fill the skies
Blackened arrows are how he dies
But dreams might be filled with lies.

In my dreams Húrin fights with cries
Of hope that ring, echoing, through the skies
And falls and is captured, bleeding, sighs.
In years to come he'll scream to unrelenting skies
But dreams might be filled with lies.

In my dreams the High King cries
Aloud, a shout that hell defies,
But no Eagle now comes from the skies
And the High King helm-struck dies
But dreams might be filled with lies.

In my dreams my child is born and I've...
I've gone, I'm lost, I never see his eyes.
He's born a slave and never dies.
To reach freedom, oh, how he tries.
But dreams might be filled with lies.

In my dreams a star has eyes
That look like mine, and oh, he flies!
Hope radiates down from the skies.
But dreams might be filled with lies!
Dreams might be filled with lies.

Comments

[kayleearafinwiel]

Oh goodness, poor Rian! Sometimes dreams lie indeed, but not these, alas. :(

[starspray]

Poor Rian! Foresight is such a burden. I love how you used the prompt, and the motif of eyes that runs through the stanzas most closely connected to Rian herself. I especially love that Earendil has her eyes!

[elleth]

!!!!!! Congratulations on keeping up the rhyme all that poem! The verse about Tuor broke my heart, especially considering that it's all true dreaming.