Title: Archaeology of Tears
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Screen
Other prompt: N/A
Rating: G
Length: 39
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie, for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Excavating a defeat


Sift the dust
That once was mud
The dross
The shadowed ash
For anything
Not pulverized
By time
By nightmare forms
Of fire
Cruel and bent
To evil ends
Gently shake the screen
For glints of gold
And hope