Finally

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Finally

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings,

Being the third part of, The Return of the King

Chapter 4, The Siege of Gondor, Page 79-103,

Page 103.

“All save one.”

“You cannot enter here, said Gandalf, and the huge shadow

halted. Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back!

Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!”

“Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind

in same courtyard of the City, a cock crowed.

Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war,

welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above

the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.

And as if in answer there came from far away another note.

Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin’s sides they dimly echoed.

Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.”

October 15 – 16, 2018

The Netherlands, Tilburg,

P.C.M. Hermans

“Point. No bullshit.

I had to do this, in this way.”

Finally

In the middle of a night, the night,

she looks into the evening, every day.

She’s been waiting, for you, to arrive.

It wasn’t a question.

It wasn’t an answer.

There were moments in her life,

she’s been reading stories. A lot.

A lot of time.

She knew then, she has a high responsibility

and sometimes, is allowed to show

the highest responsibility of All.

Stories become one story,

in the belief, faith and dedication

of the soul and body, hers.

Do not think,

it was hard.

It is easy.

You can fall in love with your life,

for once, I say, I may say, now.

But hurry, hush, pretty little darling,

Sun rises, no time to lose is there, no more!

Finally, she took a deep breath.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

February 10, 2019

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : Sun rises by Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans, Tilburg

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