Disclaimer:

What is hers,

Is not mine

So all I do

Is make a rhyme

A/N: This poem is dedicated to my lovely Darlene, or Banshee Queen. She loves LOTR and i thought i should make this poem in honour of my Elven Queen...

All That I Fear

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My life is a battle,

A constant raging war

I have seen this world

I know each mountain

I have studied every culture, every lore

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I have seen evil

That others dare not

I have battled demons

Not of this world

I have seen places that others forgot

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Yet my life is nothing

I have no future, no past

I have no deeds to be proud of,

To claim as my own

For my rightful title, has long been cast

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A king, they claim

Was what I was born to be

A King of Gondor

Of the White City

The crown has passed to me

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But I cannot take it

I am no King

The same blood runs in my veins

The blood of a coward

The coward corrupted by the Ring

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She whispers my name

It rings in my head

She tells me I am wrong

I am no coward

But my faith in myself is long dead

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Then I see it

The blade that was broken

It shines in my eyes

It relights my courage

It whispers words unspoken

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I take it in my hand

The destroyer of the Dark Lord

The blade has been remade

Its power returned

And now I behold my ancestor's sword

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With it, I confront the evil of this world

With my kinsman at my side

I lead and I charge

With elf and dwarf

We confront the undead, in the dreaded mountainside

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'I am Isildur's heir'

'I command thee to fight!'

'Make good on you oath'

'You made long ago'

'And come with me this night.'

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With my friends at my side

And the sword in my hand

I lead the undead

Whose honour is gone

To destroy the evil gripping this land

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We fight and we win

The Dark Ruler is gone

No more evil

No more darkness

We shall have peace anon

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The hobbits stand before me

My brothers andkinsmen are near

I stand in the White City

The City of Gondor

I am about to do what I most fear

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The White Wizard

My friend through it all

He raises the crown

The thing I have dreaded

On my head let it fall

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I stand before my people

I stand as their lord

They call out my name

They rejoice for me

They rejoice as I hold up my sword

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All that I feared

Has now come to pass

Everything I did not want

Everything I ran from

Is now here at last

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I am the King

I became what I was born to be

I became what I hated

What I dreaded

I finally became me...