Title: Pandemic Couplets
Fandom: Original
Challenge: Reunion
Other prompt: July Tolkien Short Fanworks form - Couplets
Rating: G
Length: 72
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Vaccines make for reunions


Together now, again might hand meet hand
Breath co-mingle, Bodies touch unplanned

Close up the careful distance, anxious reach
Across a gulf occasioned by mere speech

No more the crown will capture but must yield
To new-made spears and traps, a hard-won shield

The conflagration over, so tis said
But still the grim accounting mounts: of dead

How long until another, greater scourge
Doth call for all to join a greater dirge?