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Silmarillion; Poetry; What Debt

  • Dec. 5th, 2020 at 10:40 PM
Title: What Debt
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Debt
Other prompt: Current events
Rating: G
Length: 10 lines, 52 words
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: What might be owed to those in power who will not lead?



What debt is owed to those
Who make of rule a jest,
A mockery of what it means to lead?

What fealty, homage, honor
Rightly goes, is given
Without reciprocation, true exchange?

What price proper kingship
What coin doth duty pay
To those who grasp at power
And yet refuse to lead?

Comments

adafrog: (Default)
[personal profile] adafrog wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2020 02:46 am (UTC)
Very good. Thanks.
hhimring: Estel, inscription by D. Salo (Default)
[personal profile] hhimring wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2020 08:18 pm (UTC)
Pithy and true, in Middle-earth as elsewhere.

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