THE BALLAD OF MR SPOCK

Half Vulcan, half human, a social misfit,
Spock quested for truth but never found it,
Till two lifelines converged and in friendship would lock;
No-one would think of Kirk without Spock.
Over thousands of planets and millions of stars,
The Enterprise sought new life beyond Antares.
Through all their adventures they stood beside each other,
To Kirk, Spock was closer than a brother.
Then came the time in Stardate 81
When the Genesis world was about to be born.
A time bomb set in motion by an evil stranger,
The Enterprise was crippled, the crew were in danger.
The Genesis bomb would engulf the ship and explode;
Spock, knowing this, the ship's security over-rode.
No human could enter the radioactive warp drive zone 
To repair the engines in time, but Spock could,and went in alone -
It was the logical thing to do.
As the radiation caressed him with its rays of death,
He saved ship and Kirk, but had little time left
To say goodbye to his closest friend,
To know of a new world's beginning before his own heroic end.
Separated by the glass wall from the radiation's deady gale, 
Kirk could only stand helplessly as he watched his Vulcan fail. 
"Live long and prosper" were the last words Spock said 
Before the radiation overcame him, and he lay there, dead.

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