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Posted: 21 Feb 2004 18:36:44 -0800  
In: alt.startrek.creative 
From: kwatson@gtcom.net (KayJay) 
 

TITLE: One
AUTHOR: KayJay
CONTACT: archer@treksoap.com
SERIES: ENT
RATING: G
CODES: A/R
PART: 1/1
STATUS: Complete (drabble)
ARCHIVE: Permission to ASC, TrekSoap, EntSTCommunity, Reed's Archery
Range, Archer's Enterprise. Anyone else, ask.
SUMMARY: Jon's thoughts upon waking on his 45th birthday -- in Mal's
DISCLAIMERS: Paramount's. Dammit.
NOTES: Follows A/R storyline from TrekSoap(.com), but it isn't
necessary to know the details to understand the heart. Fits in with
Mareel's TrekSoap drabble series. Special thanks to her for the beta!


* * * * *

One
by KayJay

One more year.
Older.
Wiser.
Less hair, more gut.
A bit worse for the wear,
but knowing better than before.

One day
closer to salvation --
or destruction --
of everything.
Twenty-four hours to savor or regret,
to reach out, or withdraw.
To seek...
find...
...live.

One night
past joy reclaimed:
reconnection,
reunion,
reaffirmation.
Discovering more of love
than I ever dared imagine.

One love,
No longer fearing
separateness,
loneliness,
senselessness.
Stronger together than apart --
the promise of one self fulfilled
within safe harbor of another.

One heart
to welcome home another.
Through laughter,
tears,
and love
above all,
two become...
one.

-- fin --

--
Stephen Ratliff
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