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TITLE: The Shattering
AUTHOR: Ma'ah
TYPE: Poem
RATING: G
DISCLAIMERS: The characters and situations in Earth: Final Conflict do not belong to me, but to Tribune Entertainment, Kirshner-Roddenberry, Atlantis and related companies.
SPOILERS: Season 2's "Redemption"
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hi there! This is a poem in two voices, immediately after The Redemption.
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The Shattering
by Ma'ah, the Conflicted Poet <AnseRan@aol.com>

Liam:
With you all unaware
I tried to find my reflection
In the mirror of your face.

I watched you move
Trying to trace my past
Through your gait, your gestures,
The toss of your hair.

I ached to talk to you
Listen to your stories
Sit by your side and just be.

Dreaming that someday 
You would see ‘me’ in my eyes
And realize how much I needed you.
Apart always - I still cradled close to you.

Sandoval:
I admit you confused me
You were nothing -
Not a part of my plan.
But your sly smile
And gentle teasing
Twisted my heart
And my protestations
Fell like runes
At your feet.

You told of a time 
When we would touch
And said it was inevitable.
You held out a promise to me
Now broken and splintered
As a crystal fluted goblet
Slips from my nerveless fingers.
Glitters of glass sparkling 
In the spreading red wine.

Liam:
I held you and you knew me
A time too brief, too agonizing
Gathering you close, I felt
Your life sliding through my arms.
You were the gem through which
We viewed our lives.
Your dazzling facets bound us together
A fragmented family.

Sandoval:
How I wish I could have 
Stroked your unbound hair
Felt it slip silkily
Through my fingers
Touched your face 
And told you ...

Liam:
I look up at you through swimming eyes
Into your cold unfeeling countenance
I am bereft and two parts of me are lost - 
Now I have only you.
And you will not speak.

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Copyright 1998 Ma'ah