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TITLE: I Have Touched The Void
AUTHOR: Ma'ah
TYPE: Poetry/Verse
RATING: G
DISCLAIMER: The characters and concepts of "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict" do not belong to me, but instead to Tribune Entertainment, Roddenberry Kirschner Productions, and Atlantis films.
SPOILERS: "The Joining."
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I Have Touched The Void
by Ma'ah, The Conflicted Poet <AnseRan@aol.com>

I Have Touched The Void

(The message was found floating in the data stream, voice uploaded, unattached
to any specific computer and undated.)

Today, I watched a blood red sun rise
Behind the darkened mountains
And turn them into flame.

The light flowed like lava down the hills
To pool across the valley
And so begin the day.

I feel the weight of my responsibilities,
The hopes, fears, and needs of my people
Laying heavily upon me.

Our two peoples regard each other with suspicion and arrogance
But I have come to know you, and have found in you a nobility
And strength of purpose that I did not expect.

And what today is true may not be so tomorrow.

I have stood in silence and seen the earth 
Spinning blue white and brown against the backdrop of a thousand stars.
And felt a longing that I have never known.

I have held the hand of a dying man
And gazed into his eyes as his tortured soul
Struggled to free itself from the bondage of his body.

I have heard the song of the stars played upon the earth by a human woman.
And all thoughts of lies and deception were forgotten for one brief moment.
And only beauty was heard.

But now the day has ended.
The light does not fade as much as drift away.
On soft butterfly wings and electronic hymns.

Will you read these words and understand, 
or will they fade unnoticed?  A file deleted, a paper tossed,
A sound un-uttered.

All plots and plans have been swept away.
Leaving behind only an emptiness, a silence,
And a waiting.

I have touched the void and seen what lies beyond.
It has moved my soul.
And I am not afraid.


(Lily shivered as she read the words and realized that she could not tell if
they had been written by Da’an.....or Boone.)

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Copyright 1998 Ma'ah