(I apologize for the format. I could not get the poem to come out single spaced. The horizontal rules are to indicate where there should be breaks.) This poem was originally first published under the name Sandra Dennis in 1976 in the fanzine Terra Vulcan Yearbook and reprinted in 1983 in the fanzine The Neutral Zine #2.
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Sandra Gray
Pon-Farr
Home...
Where I must go
To take a wife-or die.
Spare me
The pain, this drive,
The savage desires.
You humans have no conception
Of what it is
To ache, to-rape
Each female with my mind.
Christine, I'm sorry
I cannot care for you.
I am drawn
By ancient chimes
To thee-T'Pring!
No, don't spurn me!
I cannot bear
The hate for-Jim.
I must-spare him.
Too late-he's dead;
My grief encompasses-
All.
But how-he's yet alive!
The joy!-no, I am-
Relieved, Captain.
Christine, your eyes
Are on me as I go
And I know
It will be you-next time.
Sandra Gray
copyright 1983 Sandra D. Gray