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Title:       Fear Not, My Jim
Author:      Hypatia Kosh
Contact:     athena_sappho at yahoo . com
Codes:       K/S, poem
Warnings:    canon character death
Rating:      G
Summary:     STII:TWOK inspired poetry. Spock's death deserves 
             better than this, I know.
Disclaimer:  I'm not responsible for the Common Hymn Meter, 
             and Nick Meyer wrote "The Wrath of Khan," thanks.
Notes:       Um, pretend that "kalifee" rhymes with "Toffifee" 
             ("Toffifay" in the USA) for purposes of this poem.





Fear not, my Jim, and do not mourn,
Your heart is brave and strong;
Let not the sorrows of your soul
Occlude your light for long.

I lost you once--remember, Jim?
At my own hand you fell;
I thought I should not last til morn;
What joy to find you well!

So is it any harder, Jim,
When it is yours the loss?
When you are left alone, bereft,
And I have borne the cost?

You think I find it easy, Jim,
From life to walk away--
Just as you sacrificed yourself
For me in kal-i-fee?

If we had had the choice, you know
I would have died with you,
But other lives were in our hands--
Could I forsake them too?

Do not grieve, Admiral, my death,
My life was not in vain.
I failed in only this, my Jim:
I could not spare your pain.

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