Beyond - Legends Entrapment--A Leia poem during Inferno

Alderaan went out in a blaze,
not of glory,
but of injustice,
of cold-blooded hatred that counteracted the fire that obliterated it.
She stood
motionless,
helpless,
impotent in her grief and
stalwart
in her hope
that all would be worth the sacrifice.
That life would go on
with or without
her
or those she loved.
She stood restrained only by the need
to not let her enemy win one more battle
and by the person who should have been able to love her.
Kashyyk is no different
than Alderaan in its final blaze.
She faces the fire
of a more familiar enemy
and is restrained again by the need to
prevent another victory.
When this enemy was young, she shut away her feelings
to protect him
and to cover her own shadows.
She wonders if that is
another crime
that, along with hope and faith and inaction,
could be added to the charges brought against her.
She watches Kashyyyk's blaze,
restrained by her grief and by
the man who has never ceased to love her.
Too much and too litle has changed
since Alderaan,
but like the young woman who
watched her world die,
she will not let this crime go
unavenged.

 

Too much and too litle has changed
since Alderaan,
but like the young woman who
watched her world die,
she will not let this crime go
unavenged.

Excellent Leia perspective, as always, Ish. You are so good at conveying her her quiet desperation tinged with an unrelenting desire to right the wrongs done to her and to the galaxy.

It is sad.

 

poor poor Leia who gave and lost so much

 

Thanks, brodiew and SilSolo. This has been nagging at me since reading Inferno.