Title: Aftercomer
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Second
Other prompt:
Rating: G
Length: 65
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Aftercomer, subsequent -- people, sibling, traveler, learner -- subordinate? Or only different?



Aftercomer, not the first
Choosing
What footsteps to follow
To strike out alone
A path with both pieces

Sibling, subsequent,
Separate
Yet always a referent
A pattern, a mold
Never an only, however alone

Second not lesser
Standing
Supporting, sustaining
Other, not odd
Balancing herald and heir

Sun after Moon, reflecting
Remains
Of Treelight, of Lamplight
In memory gold
And Starshine the eldest of all