Downfall by Lferion  

Downfall

Water runs in tears of rain, once frozen

Now storm-released as snow, as sleet, as hail

Waves, wind-whipped, do bring destruction, chosen

Downfall of land o'erburdened by travail

Where fire also feeds, burns hot and fierce

Consuming rock and stronghold, foe and friend

And air itself in twists sends trees to pierce

Through walls, tears earth, and breaks what will not bend

This too is Song, these notes that ground unknits

The elements unite to Balrogs slay

Chill dragonfire, swift scour Angband's pits,

Unchain the thralls and Morgoth hold at bay.

    What balance might be found, what green might grow

    'Neath restless waves, that o'er those lands now flow?