TITLE: Recognition

AUTHOR: Gamin Davis

SERIES: TOS (STIII)

RATING: G for sappiness :^)

CODES: K&S

SUMMARY: Kirk's thoughts on facing Spock after the fal-tor-pan ceremony.

DISCLAIMER: For lo, the Deity Paramount doth own these characters; I do but frolic briefly with them in their playground.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This poem goes with "Our Dearest Blood" (in fact was published alongside it in VISIONS OF FUTURES PAST), and I don't like to break up the set , so here it is.


RECOGNITION
By Gamin Davis


//Jim...your name is Jim...//

As recognition fills your eyes,
I wonder if you realize
the loss and censure I have faced
to bring you safely to this place--
the fire and death through which I've been,
and private wars I couldn't win...

A comet-star called Enterprise
that blazed in glory through the skies
to share in Genesis' demise...
a newfound son I'll never know,
whose pointless death brings endless woe...
and still to face is Starfleet's wrath;
I've once too often left their path...

Yet, as I see you comprehend,
I still would bear it all again--
it would be worth it in the end--
if I could bring you back, my friend.

//I have been...and ever shall be...your friend.//

---Gamin Davis, 1988