~ Devotions ~

© Triskell, February 2004

For Kandadze – Happy (belated) Birthday!

(Aragorn)

Vambraces guard your arms

And pride keeps safe your heart

But not from golden charms

That would you from your duty part

Pride pushes me away

Regards me with contempt;

It bids you leave though you would stay,

Your young life already spent

In search of worthy causes

That must exclude the likes of me;

Your valour never pauses

But you shy from what could be

So that your brother, friend and king

Of love for you unbroken by your death must sing.