Quidam's View

Ertho-nos

(Elvish for "United Family")
by Colleen Barry
Written 10-30-07

Hardening the family ties

Beneath the sullen moon,

Pulling in the Love of Life:
Its gift ne’er comes too soon.

 

Before our King, we followed suit,

And found our hearts in others.

In chambers kept in bone afar;

These people are my brothers.

 

Tied to them, those barely known;

Yet feeling years of kinship!

Each secret felt in bosom’s box:

The greatest chains of friendship.

 

Bound in love under Nation’s laws,

We take care of those among us;

In these halls the love doth flow

And the strongest notion of trust.

 

Safe Haven and Nation, together they join,

And here I feel accepted.

To grow and give in Love and Life,

A family ne’er will I be found rejected.

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