A/N: I wrote this after The Wrath of Khan, before The Search for Spock. I always believed that Kirk had something in mind, knowing what Genesis was capable of, when he launched Spock's body to the planet. Kirk always had something in mind...
Memories of a time long past—
Of a man I knew who breathed his last.
For the needs of the many he lived, and he died;
The needs of the few, and the one, pushed aside.
In the wake of a new world he gave his life
And the loss is felt like the pierce of a knife.
But this world is young and new, alive...
And what of Spock? Did he survive?
Someday I will return to this place
To learn the fate he really did face,
But for now, until that time,
I'll have the memories. They are mine.
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