A/N: I originally wrote this poem in 1986 sometime after the release of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home. It is set at the very end of the movie and is from Spock's POV. Reviews appreciated.

Disclaimer: This is in no way intended to infringe legally upon the ownership rights of Paramount or whoever has legal rights to the franchise of Star Trek.

Voyage of Friendship

You and I go quietly on our silent way.

A pause, a look, contains more than words can say.

You fall in step beside me

And we journey on our way

To places few have gone before

And fewer have come away.

You and I have our past here

Within the saline wave,

Yet the different suns whose warmth we were born to

Might have burned our bonds away.

We wore one heart and, in our way,

But one face-

The face of sharp control, of invulnerability.

We shared laughter in the salt spray mere hours ago

Like two boys at play.

Openly I lay my claim to friendship

In the face of one who scorned me.

Openly I take my stand

For who I really am.

And you waited through the passing crowds,

As I did for many years,

To come full circle to the end

Which, in truth, is the beginning anew.

Together, as equals, as brothers,

We take to the starry sea

Where our heart is.