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Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) and Luke Skywalker
(Mark Hamill) in SW Episode V: The Empire Strikes
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Soul in Turmoil
by Bria
Wednesday, April 8, 1998


I hang on the edge of the platform.
My right hand is no more.
Exhaustion has set in.

*Luke, I am your father.*

*No, that's not true, that's impossible.*
My father was a good man.
My father is dead.

*Search your feelings. You know this to be true.*

My feelings....
although you are evil, I feel the truth in your words.
How can this be?

*Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.*
NO! Even if I am your son, I am NOT you.
I will never join you or the emperor.

I look down below me.
An endless shaft,
that would be certain death for me.

I do not care,
because I'd rather die, then turn to the Dark Side.
I step off the edge- and fall.

I see my *father*, as I plummet.
I open up to the Force,
and surrender my life to its will.

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Sorrow

"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes
which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is
a debt which someone else makes for us."

--Freya Stark (1893-1993), British travel writer.
Perseus in the Wind, ch. 16 (1948).