Poem The Promise in Your Eyes, a startrek: the original series fanfic

(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 published in 1981 in the fanzine The Neutral Zine #1.

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Sandra Gray

The Promise in Your Eyes

To see you again, to see

The promise in your eyes

Undimmed by long distance

And by time. That what I see

Must forever be denied

Because of Deltan romance

Unbearable is cruel fate for me.

But now you're changed,

Ilia; they say you are machine,

And my job to ferret V'Ger's spies.

But is it so arranged

That so much of you still seen

That I dare trust the promise in your eyes?

Or am I just deranged?

Your love, sweet as a song

Surrounded me and kept me warm,

As under Delta's summer skies

Again. Would I be wrong

To follow you into the waiting storm,

To say, "As much as you want the Enterprise,

I want this!" and then go along?

Dare I trust the promise in your eyes?

If we stop V'Ger, what becomes of you?

But Earth's future is at stake; for time we race.

I left you once; my aim the Enterprise

And space, Ilia, to dim my love for you.

Can I now live without your sweet embrace?

No! In you is where my promise lies!

Sandra Gray