Title: A Star in Mordor

Author: daimaashiki

Summary: Sam finds some hope while struggling through Mordor.

Author's Note: Kate, I wrote this on the train home for spring break. It looks like I finally found some inspiration. I've decided to dedicate this poem to you.

"A Star in Mordor"

The beauty of a star at night

Twinkling strong and distant

Showing off its wondrous light

For all who lay below it

But here we are exhausted

On this dusty mountainside

The stars are hidden in the mist

Of Sauron's evil pride

The sky is always dark now

Even in the day

I worry if this blackness

Will ever go away

But, hopefully I look upon

The sky for one more time

And there I saw a sight

I thought I'd lost so far behind

I looked above and saw a star

It had made it through somehow

And then I thought just maybe

We could make it too, now