POETRY CORNER
I'm pretty sure that some of you didn't know that slashy Spock love poems were what was missing from your life. I certainly didn't until I stumbled across New Voyages 1 and 2 books, which both end with Spock poetry. The last two lines of the first one are hilariously dramatic, and the final two lines of the second one achieve an amazingly level of subtlety fail. Clearly, they need to be shared.
I thought the memory of you was gone-
I thought it buried underneath the years.
But now it rises, bright as Vulcan dawn,
And I remember you, and Earth, and tears.
Your tears were falling like the rains of Earth;
You were the storms and roses of Earth's spring.
You could not know that, almost from my birth
The rites of Vulcan bound me to T'Pring.
I could not break those ties; I had no choice-
Returned to space, left you and Earth behind.
But still I heard the echo of your voice,
Found rain and wind and roses in my mind.
You told me that you loved me, and you cried.
I said I had no feelings. And I lied.
Soliloquy
My father gave no word of love to me.
My mother practiced laudable restraint.
My Vulcan childhood lessons logically
Prepared me to despise the human trait.
I could not blame T'Pring; I saw that she
Let flawless logic over pledge prevail.
For she would stop at nothing to be free
Wisely to mate with a pure Vulcan male.
Human tormentors do not understand
Acknowledgment of feelings causes pain,
Cruelly subvert defenses I had planned,
Plot anesthetize my watchful brain.
What will they find when I am ripped apart?
"I love you, Captain," written on my heart.
I thought the memory of you was gone-
I thought it buried underneath the years.
But now it rises, bright as Vulcan dawn,
And I remember you, and Earth, and tears.
Your tears were falling like the rains of Earth;
You were the storms and roses of Earth's spring.
You could not know that, almost from my birth
The rites of Vulcan bound me to T'Pring.
I could not break those ties; I had no choice-
Returned to space, left you and Earth behind.
But still I heard the echo of your voice,
Found rain and wind and roses in my mind.
You told me that you loved me, and you cried.
I said I had no feelings. And I lied.
Soliloquy
My father gave no word of love to me.
My mother practiced laudable restraint.
My Vulcan childhood lessons logically
Prepared me to despise the human trait.
I could not blame T'Pring; I saw that she
Let flawless logic over pledge prevail.
For she would stop at nothing to be free
Wisely to mate with a pure Vulcan male.
Human tormentors do not understand
Acknowledgment of feelings causes pain,
Cruelly subvert defenses I had planned,
Plot anesthetize my watchful brain.
What will they find when I am ripped apart?
"I love you, Captain," written on my heart.