Title: Solitude
Fandom: Silmarillion, Original
Challenge: Solitary
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: A sonnet




O give me quiet, stillness, solitude
To think thoughts all my own, no interrupt
Allowed, intruding on the interlude
Between fond obligation, need abrupt —
A place devoid of clangor, of alarm,
No need for senses held in high alert
Let spirit put off armor against harm
Where walls and wards intrusion will avert.
Here tears and laughter both are but release
No other eyes observe or ears mishear
Expecting explanation; only peace,
Untrammeled thought, alone within my sphere
    It is illusion, this still and small reprieve
    And yet it serves to grant a space to breathe