Not yet dead

This is a poem I wrote a couple of years ago, and later got it published in the poetry section of www.theonering.com, a Tolkien fansite . It might still be lying somewhere in their archives. When I originally wrote it, I was suffering from the heroic feelings that one is afflicted with so very often in student life. Later, I depersonalized it by posting it in the context of the life of Frodo Baggins after he returned from Mordor.

I may be down,
but not yet dead

Beaten, ravaged, torn, sick,
Wounded I may be,
but not yet dead

Standing still on broken crutches,
Wanting to fall and be at rest,
Yet trying to walk
for I know
I may be down,
but not yet dead