Violent Despair

by AlekseiDubov

This is a poem that I wrote for English class. It wasn't until later that I realized its relation to Star Trek. Since there doesn't seem to be a Star Trek into darkness category, or at least not one that I can find, I put this under the 2009 movie. Think of it as Khan's mindset when he thought that his entire crew had been murdered.

Violent Despair

By: Aleksei Dubov

Jab! Jab! Jab!
Stab! Stab! Stab!
Violence, anger, and hate
That is our fate

I want to hurt
I want to wound
I want to maim
I want to kill

No more calm
Only the storm
The turmoil beneath
Showing its teeth

Growl, bite, scratch
For there is no match
When tooth meets claw
Tree under the saw

Foundation gnawed away
Nowhere else to stay
All cracks and breaks
It shatters and falls away

Across the ruined field of life
No more pastures and meadows
All is ashes and dust
Till the tide of despair
Sweeps even that clear

Yet the fires still feast
For the tide is like oil
Feeding the scorching flames
As I drown beneath the gorge

No more calm
Only the storm
The turmoil beneath
Showing its teeth

Growl, bite, scratch
For there is no match
When tooth meets claw
Tree under the saw

Struggling toward the surface
The flame fights me back
It hurts too much to care
I die within the fiery throes

Death and destruction haunt my path
Yet I have no choice in how I act
I live a life of continued death
My body survives as my soul floats lifelessly past

No more calm
No more storm
No more turmoil
No more teeth

I can't fight back
There's nothing left
No tooth to meet claw
Tree defeated by saw