keeper of the keys

it wasn't so very long gone by
a desperate haunted creature
huddled hunched and waiting
there outside our village gate
with his keen and utter focus
being the keeper of the keys
one could not help but see the
sudden stirring of the wretch
at the comings and the goings
of he who bore this trust

our gollum, he was so patient
while looming in the shadows
always thinking, never blinking
with a lustful fever burning bright
behind his gaunt emaciated eyes
which flashed a molten crimson
at the jingle-jangle of the keys
as the keeper came and went
above all else he knew he must
possess those precious keys