Title: Oak and Ice
Fandom: The Hobbit
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Image is from this page.
Summary: An oak leaf falls



An oak leaf falls on ice, edges red and ragged. Frozen fast, no breath of wind to tug at curled tips caught. But steadfast, fragile membranes hold, defiant color keeps the sky in view, as sunlight melts the ice below, thus cradled cold, the leaf endures, where branch would long be lost.

Will Spring see only emptiness? Or might a hand that acorns know reach forth, and careful warm the brittle, tattered thing so near entombed, and draw it forth to cherish? What hope remains, if oaken strength doth fail?

Memory will hold, as acorns grow, stone and water know.

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