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shirebound"Sonnet from the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three" is a poem written by Shirley Meech. It was originally published in Star Trek: The New Voyages, a collection of short stories published by Bantam Books in 1976. The poem is written in the first person from the viewpoint of Mr. Spock during or shortly after the episode "This Side of Paradise", in which Spock encounters Leila Kalomi, a beautiful woman he had known many years before on Earth when Leila had fallen in love with him, but Spock did not return her love.
I thought the memory of you was gone,
I thought it buried underneath the years.
But now it rises, bright as Vulcan dawn,
And I remember you, and Earth, and tears.
Your tears were falling like the rains of Earth,
You were the storms and roses of Earth's spring.
You could not know that almost from my birth,
The rites of Vulcan bound me to T'Pring.
I could not break those ties; I had no choice,
Returned to space, left you and Earth behind.
But still I heard the echoes of your voice,
Found rain and wind and roses in my mind.
You told me that you loved me, and you cried.
I said I had no feelings. And I lied.
"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
-- James T. Kirk
I thought the memory of you was gone,
I thought it buried underneath the years.
But now it rises, bright as Vulcan dawn,
And I remember you, and Earth, and tears.
Your tears were falling like the rains of Earth,
You were the storms and roses of Earth's spring.
You could not know that almost from my birth,
The rites of Vulcan bound me to T'Pring.
I could not break those ties; I had no choice,
Returned to space, left you and Earth behind.
But still I heard the echoes of your voice,
Found rain and wind and roses in my mind.
You told me that you loved me, and you cried.
I said I had no feelings. And I lied.
"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
-- James T. Kirk